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Porcupine Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Wine and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,260 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Porcupine Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bake a sponge cake.

  2. Place the sponge cake in a glass bowl or dish.

  3. Soak the cake with a little wine.

  4. Stick the blanched almond strips over the top.

  5. Surround the cake with boiled custard.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Wine + almondtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,260 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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