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Eastee Egg Pudding

A dessert of gelatin-filled eggs served over a jelly base with orange shreds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and grape are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,771 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Eastee Egg Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the components

  1. Make a mold of wine or lemon jelly in a round, shallow dish the day before serving.

  2. Cut the rind of the oranges into shreds, boil in sugar and water until sweet, and set aside.

  3. Make a small hole in the top of each egg, pour out the contents, and rinse the shells with cold water.

  4. Fill the shells with gelatin blanc mange through the small hole.

  5. Stir grape jelly, chocolate, or cochineal into portions of the blanc mange for color.

  6. Set the filled shells aside overnight.

Serve

  1. To serve, turn out the jelly onto a deep platter, place the orange shreds as a nest, and peel the blanc mange eggs.

  2. Rinse the eggs in very cold water and arrange them in the nest around the jelly.

  3. 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. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Gelatin + creamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Sugar + gelatintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Wine + grapetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together819 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-p-menthene-8-thiol (grapefruit).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Empty shells serve as molds that hold the blanc mange in egg shape.
Gelatin blanc mange
Sets firm in the shells so the filled eggs can be peeled and hold their shape.
Wine or lemon jelly
Forms the set base that the eggs are arranged on for serving.
Oranges
Orange rind adds bright citrus aroma and a bitter-sweet flavor to the nest.
Chocolate
Adds flavor and color to portions of the blanc mange.

The step that matters

Peel the blanc mange eggs. The blanc mange must be fully set overnight before peeling, or the filled shells will crack and the centers will lose their shape.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wine, orange, sugar, egg, gelatin, chocolate, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, orange, sugar, egg, gelatin, chocolate, cream. 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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