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Bakewell Pudding

A sweet pastry dessert with candied peel, raspberry jam, butter, sugar, eggs, almonds, and almond essence.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 552 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Bakewell Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the base

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Line a dish with good pastry.

  3. Strew the sliced candied peel over the pastry.

  4. Spread the raspberry jam on top of the peel.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar until creamy.

  2. Pound the almonds with a little water and add to the mixture.

  3. Add the egg yolks and egg whites, mixing carefully.

  4. Pour the mixture over the jam and candied peel.

Bake

  1. Bake for 30 minutes.

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. Raspberry + almondtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Creams with sugar to give the filling a rich, tender texture.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help the filling set as it bakes.
Egg whites
Add structure and lift, helping the filling set into a light crumb.
Almonds
Add nutty flavour and body to the filling.
Raspberry jam
Adds fruity sweetness and moisture beneath the filling.
Castor sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps create a creamy base when beaten with butter.

The step that matters

Pouring the mixture over the jam and peel. Pour gently so the jam and peel layer stays in place under the filling rather than mixing into it. The filling should be evenly spread so it bakes at a uniform rate and sets evenly.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, egg, almond):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, egg, almond. 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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