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Christmas Plum Pudding

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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and brandy are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,127 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Christmas Plum Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grease a pudding mold with butter.

  2. Fill the mold with the pudding mixture, leaving some room for it to swell.

  3. Cover the mold with two layers of floured and buttered paper, then with a floured pudding cloth.

  4. Place the mold in boiling water and boil until cooked through.

  5. Once cooked, quickly plunge the pudding into cold water to prevent breaking.

  6. Before serving, make a small hole in the top, fill it with brandy, and light it on fire.

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. Butter + brandytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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