Skip to main content
Dessert

Steamed Strawberry Pudding

A steamed pudding made with batter, strawberries, and optional sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Milk and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Steamed Strawberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the egg, milk, flour, baking powder, and salt until you have a batter consistency similar to fritters.

  2. Grease teacups well.

Assemble and steam

  1. Fill each cup with 1 tablespoon of batter, add a layer of strawberries, then top with another spoonful of batter.

  2. Steam the cups in a kettle filled with water for 20 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve with your choice of sauce.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Binds the batter and gives the pudding its set structure as it cooks.
Flour
Provides the starch and protein that form the pudding's body and structure.
Baking powder
Releases gas that lifts the batter so the pudding rises and turns light.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness, helping the batter become tender and pourable.
Strawberries
Add fruit flavour and moisture that bake into the pudding layer.

The step that matters

Fill the cups with batter, then steam. Batter should be spooned in evenly and the cups kept covered and sealed while steaming, so steam heats the pudding gently and it sets without drying or becoming soggy.

“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.

You might also like

White CakeWhite Cake431 recipesPound CakePound Cake373 recipesOrange Bundt CakeOrange Bundt Cake349 recipesSpice CakeSpice Cake344 recipes