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Apple Pudding, Baked, Rich

A baked apple pudding made with apples, butter, cream, eggs, sugar, lemon rind, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,318 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Apple Pudding, Baked, Rich

Oven, in the book's wordsA good oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a good oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Line a pie dish with short crust.

  2. Stew the apples until hot.

  3. Add the butter and let cool.

Make the filling

  1. Stir in the cream, beaten eggs, sugar, lemon rind, and nutmeg.

  2. Pour the mixture into the pie dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 30 minutes.

  2. Serve with Devonshire cream or custard.

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. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Apple + nutmegtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Cream + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the bulk and tart fruit flavour of the pudding, softening as they are stewed.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the filling a smoother, softer texture.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, helping the filling set into a soft custard-like texture.
Eggs
Bind the filling and set during baking, giving it structure.

The step that matters

Let the stewed apples cool before adding the butter and eggs. Eggs can scramble or curdle if mixed into a very hot base, so letting the apples and butter cool first helps the filling bake into a smooth, even set.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cream, egg, sugar, lemon, nutmeg. 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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