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Blueberry Pudding

A sweet batter of butter, sugar, milk, eggs, flour, baking powder, and blueberries baked into a pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Blueberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

  2. Add the sweet milk and eggs, mixing well.

  3. In a separate bowl, combine 3 cups of flour and baking powder.

  4. Stir in 1 cup of the flour mixture, then fold in the blueberries.

  5. Add the remaining flour and mix until just combined.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the batter into a greased baking dish and bake until golden.

  2. Serve hot with butter.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Butter
Creams with sugar to trap air, giving the pudding a light, tender crumb and rich flavour.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure as they set during baking.
Flour
Forms the main structure of the pudding as its proteins set with heat.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter so the pudding rises and becomes airy.
Blueberries
Add moisture, sweetness and bursts of fruit flavour throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Folding in the blueberries. Overmixing once the flour is in develops gluten and toughens the pudding. Fold the blueberries gently, and mix the last flour only until just combined, so the crumb stays tender.

“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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