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Peach Pudding

A baked peach dessert made with peaches, sugar, flour, baking powder, butter, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Peach Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Peel the peaches.

  2. Place the peeled peaches in a dish until it is half full.

  3. Nearly cover the peaches with water.

  4. Add the sugar to the water.

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, mix the flour and baking powder.

  2. Add the butter to the mixture.

  3. Mix the butter with water to form a dough.

  4. Roll out the dough.

Cook and serve

  1. Cover the dish with the rolled dough.

  2. Set the covered dish on top of the stove.

  3. Cover it with another dish of the same size.

  4. Cook for 30 to 40 minutes.

  5. Serve with sugar and cream.

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.

Explore the science

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. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Peach + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  4. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the fruit and juices that form the pudding's base.
Flour
Forms the dough structure that cooks into the pudding's crust.
Baking powder
Releases gas that helps the dough rise and turn light.
Butter
Adds fat that tenderizes the dough and adds richness.
Sugar
Sweetens the peaches and the syrup they cook in.

The step that matters

Cover the dish with the rolled dough. The dough must seal the dish so steam stays trapped while it cooks. If steam escapes, the dough dries out and the topping can turn heavy rather than light and tender.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, butter, egg):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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