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Baked Apple Pudding

A baked dessert of stewed apples mixed with eggs and baked in puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,461 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Baked Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Stew the apples until soft, then let them cool.

  2. Add the well-beaten eggs to the cooled apples.

  3. Line a baking dish with puff pastry.

  4. Pour the apple and egg mixture into the dish.

Bake

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until set and golden.

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. Apple + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,461 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the main body and sweet, tender flavour of the pudding once stewed.
Eggs
Bind the apple mixture and set it into a firm, custard-like texture when baked.
Puff pastry
Forms a crisp, golden, flaky base that holds the filling in the dish.

The step that matters

Let the stewed apples cool before adding the eggs. Hot apples can begin to cook the eggs unevenly or scramble them, which weakens the set and smooth texture of the pudding.

“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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