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Raspberry Pudding

A steamed pudding made with milk, eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, and raspberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Raspberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine milk and beaten eggs.

  2. Mix baking powder and salt with flour, then stir into the milk and egg mixture.

  3. Gently fold in the raspberries.

  4. Grease a mold or pudding dish and pour in the batter.

Steam and serve

  1. Place the mold in a kettle of boiling water and steam for 30 minutes.

  2. Transfer to a Caloric cooker and leave for 3 hours.

  3. Serve with hard 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Flour and butter 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

Flour
Forms the starch and gluten structure that holds the pudding together as it sets.
Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set firm when heated.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the batter.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter, helping it rise and turn light.
Raspberries
Add moisture, tartness and fruity flavour to the pudding.

The step that matters

Gently fold in the raspberries. Overmixing develops gluten and makes the pudding tough. Dredging the raspberries in flour helps them stay suspended in the batter instead of sinking to the bottom.

“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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