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Apple Sago Pudding

A dessert made by cooking sago with apples and lemon in boiling water until it thickens, served with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,551 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Apple Sago Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Bring 1 quart of water to a boil.

  2. Add 1 cup of sago and stir.

Bake and serve

  1. Add the sliced apples and lemon.

  2. Cover and bake slowly until it resembles a clear jelly.

  3. Serve with cream.

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. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Sago
Thickens the liquid as it cooks, turning it into a clear, jelly-like pudding.
Sour apples
Provide tartness and soft fruit texture that contrasts with the jelly-like sago.
Lemon
Adds acidity and aroma that brighten the sweetness of the apples.

The step that matters

Bake slowly until it resembles a clear jelly. Sago starch must cook long enough to gelatinize fully. Underbaked sago stays cloudy and grainy, while slow heat helps it set evenly without scorching.

“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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