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Delicious Easter Pudding

A baked pudding made with eggs, lemon, grated potatoes, almonds, sugar, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,655 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Delicious Easter Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a bowl, stir together the egg yolks and sugar.

  3. Add the pounded almonds, lemon zest, lemon juice, and grated potatoes.

Make and bake the pudding

  1. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, then fold them into the mixture along with the salt.

  2. Grease a pudding dish and pour the mixture into it.

  3. Place the pudding dish in a pan of boiling water and bake for 30 minutes.

Serve

  1. Turn the pudding out onto a platter and serve with wine sauce.

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. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Potato + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Lemon + potatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Almond + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Eggs
Whipped whites provide the airy structure, and yolks add richness and set the custard-like body.
Blanched and pounded almonds
Provide body, fat and a tender, moist crumb in the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps stabilise the beaten egg foam.
Lemon
Zest adds aroma and juice adds acidity that brightens the sweetness.
Grated potatoes
Add moisture and a light, soft texture to the pudding.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Beaten whites trap air that gives the pudding its lift. Folding gently, rather than stirring, keeps that air from collapsing and leaving the pudding dense.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, lemon, almond, sugar. 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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