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Savoury Carrot Pudding

A steamed pudding made with grated carrots, cooked potato, sausage, onion, parsley, egg, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Savoury Carrot Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA fairly hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. In a large bowl, mix the grated carrots, sieved potato, onion, and sausage meat thoroughly.

  2. Add the chopped parsley, salt, pepper, Marmite, and beaten egg to the mixture.

  3. If the mixture is too dry, add a little milk or stock.

Steam and serve

  1. Transfer the mixture to a greased pudding basin or mold, cover it, and steam for 2 hours.

  2. Turn the pudding out onto a hot dish and serve with brown sauce or seasoned gravy.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Nutmeg + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Sausage meat
Provides the main body, fat and savoury flavour of the pudding.
Egg
Binds the mixture so it holds its shape when steamed and turned out.
Sieved potato
Adds moisture and a smooth, soft texture to the pudding.
Grated carrots
Adds sweetness, moisture and bulk to the mixture.
Marmite
Adds a deep, salty, savoury flavour to the mixture.

The step that matters

Adding milk or stock only if the mixture is too dry. Too much liquid makes the mixture loose and it may not hold its shape when turned out, so add small amounts gradually and check the consistency first.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, potato, meat, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, egg):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, potato, meat, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, egg. 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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