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Apple Pudding

A baked apple pudding made with apples, water, wine, sugar, cinnamon, lemon peel, eggs, milk, and sweetener.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Apple Pudding

Why it works: Apple and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Apple Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the apples

  1. Peel and core the apples.

  2. Place apples in a saucepan with water, wine, sugar, cinnamon, and lemon peel.

  3. Cover and simmer until apples are tender.

  4. Remove apples and let them cool.

Assemble and bake

  1. Fill the bottom of a baking dish with the apples.

  2. Beat the eggs and milk together, sweeten to taste, and pour over the apples.

  3. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F / 175°C) until set.

Serve

  1. Serve with a sauce of your choice.

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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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. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Apple + winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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
Set the milk custard so the pudding holds its shape when cut.
Milk
Forms the liquid custard base that bakes into a soft, tender pudding.
Apples
Provide the fruit body and moisture that the custard bakes around.
Wine
Adds acidity and flavor to the apples as they simmer.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Eggs thicken the milk as they heat, so underbaking leaves a runny custard while overbaking can make it curdle and turn grainy.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, wine, sugar, cinnamon, egg, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, wine, sugar, cinnamon, egg, milk. 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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