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Quickly-made Apple Pudding

A baked apple pudding with dumplings, served with whipped or vanilla-flavored cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Quickly-made Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Butter a pudding dish and fill it with a layer of quartered tart apples.

  2. Season the apples with a pinch of coarse sea salt, a little cinnamon, some sugar, and butter.

  3. Add a little water to the apples and bring to a boil.

Cook

  1. Cover the apples with small dumplings and let boil, closely covered, for about 20 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve with whipped cream or plain cream, sweetened and flavored with vanilla.

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. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tart apples
Provide the fruit base, with tartness that balances the sugar and cinnamon.
Flour
Forms the structure of the dumplings as it sets during cooking.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the dumplings, helping them rise and stay light.
Milk
Adds moisture to the dumpling dough, keeping the dumplings tender.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and flavor in the apples.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the apples caramelize slightly in the juices.

The step that matters

Keep the pot closely covered while the dumplings boil. Trapped steam cooks the dumplings through and keeps them light. Lifting the lid lets steam escape, so the dumplings can turn dense and gummy.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, cinnamon, sugar, flour, milk, cream):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cinnamon, sugar, flour, milk, cream. 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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