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A Rachel Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 10,632 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

  1. Line a dish with slices of bread soaked in cream.

  2. Slice apples very thin and sprinkle them with sugar.

  3. Flavor the apples with orange peel, lemon peel, or any preferred flavor.

  4. Layer the bread and apples alternately in the dish.

  5. Reserve some bread to cover the top of the dish.

  6. Place a plate on top to keep it pressed down.

  7. Remove the plate when nearly done to allow the top to brown.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,632 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Apple + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,229 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Bread + appletop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,788 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Apple + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,544 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, cream, apple, sugar, orange):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream, apple, sugar, orange. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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