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Cherry Pudding

A sweet pudding made with sugar, eggs, bread crumbs, spices, lemon peel, and cherries, baked in an oven.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Cherry Pudding

Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Cherry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the sugar and eggs until very light.

  2. Add the bread crumbs, cinnamon, cloves, lemon peel, and cherries.

  3. Pour the mixture into a pudding dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the dish in a Caloric oven with one hot radiator underneath and one on top.

  2. Bake for 2 hours.

  3. Serve with boiling wine poured over it, if desired.

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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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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Clove + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Eggs
Bind the batter and set into a light, custard-like structure as they cook.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps the beaten eggs hold their lightness.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid from the eggs and cherries, giving the pudding body and a soft crumb.
Cherries
Add moisture, tartness, and fruit flavour throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Beat the sugar and eggs until very light. Beating incorporates air into the eggs, which gives the pudding its lift and light texture. Under-beaten eggs produce a dense, heavy result after baking.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, egg, bread, cinnamon, clove):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, bread, cinnamon, clove. 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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