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Hashed Fowl Pudding

A savory pudding made with onions, cream, almonds, egg yolks, and finely hashed fowl, seasoned with salt and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,769 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Hashed Fowl Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the onions until tender.

  2. Make a dry panada with the cream.

  3. In a mortar, combine the onions, panada, and ground sweet almonds.

  4. Mix in raw egg yolks and hashed fowl.

  5. Pound the mixture.

  6. Moisten with warm cream.

  7. Season with salt and spices. Taste.

Fill and cook

  1. Fill the skins with the mixture.

  2. Let them cool.

  3. Prick with a fork before grilling.

  4. Place in a paper case.

  5. Broil.

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. Onion + almondtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,769 recipes

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

  2. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Almond + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,800 recipes

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

  4. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Onion + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,827 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Onion and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,827 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

Onions
Softened and pounded, they give the filling its bulk and moist body.
Raw egg yolks
Bind the mixture together so it holds its shape when cooked.
Sweet almonds
Add richness and a fine, smooth texture when ground into the filling.
Cream
Makes a panada that thickens the mixture and keeps it moist.
White roasted fowl
Provides the main savoury meat and the body of the pudding.

The step that matters

Prick with a fork before grilling. Pricking lets steam escape from the filling as it heats, so the skins do not swell and burst or the filling does not turn watery and uneven.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Arrowrootfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, almond, 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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