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Orange Pudding

A custard-like dessert made with orange and lime zest, butter, sugar, eggs, wine, brandy, rose water, and puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 937 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Orange 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 filling

  1. Grate the yellow rind of the orange and lime, and squeeze the juice into a bowl, removing all seeds.

  2. Cream the butter and sugar together until smooth.

  3. Beat the eggs until light, then gradually stir them into the butter and sugar mixture.

  4. Add the liquor and rose-water gradually, followed by the orange and lime juice. Mix well.

Line and bake

  1. Prepare a sheet of puff pastry using the flour and ¼ pound of butter, and lay it in a buttered pie dish.

  2. Trim and notch the edges of the pastry, then pour in the orange mixture.

  3. Bake for about 30 minutes in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C).

Serve

  1. Grate loaf sugar over the pudding before serving.

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. Orange + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Wine + brandytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Orange + rosetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together876 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Orange + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten eggs add structure and help the filling set when baked.
Butter
Creamed with sugar, it adds richness and a tender texture to the filling.
Powdered sugar
Creamed with butter, it sweetens the filling and helps give it a smooth texture.
Flour
Forms the puff pastry that holds the filling in the pie dish.
Orange and lime juice
Provides acidity and citrus flavour to the pudding.

The step that matters

Beating the eggs until light before adding them. Beating incorporates air into the eggs, and adding them gradually to the creamed butter and sugar helps keep the mixture smooth and evenly emulsified rather than curdled, which supports a light, even texture after baking.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, sugar, butter, egg, wine, brandy, rose):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, sugar, butter, egg, wine, brandy, rose. 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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