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Roly Poly Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Roly Poly Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roll out the suet pastry into a long strip.

  2. Spread jam on the pastry, leaving space near the edges.

  3. Roll up the pastry tightly and seal the ends.

  4. Dip a pudding cloth in boiling water and sprinkle with flour.

  5. Place the roll in the center of the cloth, fold it over, and tie the ends with string.

  6. Boil in water for two hours.

  7. Serve hot with custard sauce or 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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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