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Graham Pudding

A steamed pudding made with graham flour, sweet milk, molasses, raisins, spices, preserved orange peel, and citron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Graham Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a large bowl, combine sweet milk, graham flour, molasses, chopped raisins, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, preserved orange peel, and chopped citron. Mix until well combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into a greased pudding mold.

Steam and serve

  1. Steam the pudding for 2½ to 3 hours.

  2. Serve with whipped cream or your preferred pudding 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.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Graham flour
Forms the bulk of the pudding and gives it a hearty, coarse-textured structure.
Molasses
Adds moisture, dark color, and a deep sweetness to the pudding.
Sweet milk
Moistens the flour so it forms a cohesive, pourable batter.
Raisins
Add chewy pockets of sweetness and moisture throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Steam the pudding for the full time. Steaming cooks the batter gently and evenly with moist heat, so the pudding sets through and stays tender. Cutting the time short leaves the centre dense and undercooked.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, flour, molasses, raisin, ginger, cinnamon, clove):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits about as well
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Applefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, flour, molasses, raisin, ginger, cinnamon, clove. 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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