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Cowslip Pudding

A sweet pudding made from cowslip pips, sweet biscuits, cream, eggs, rose-water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cowslip Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pound the cowslip pips small with the grated sweet biscuits and cream in a pot.

  2. Boil the mixture together.

Make the custard

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with a little cream and rose-water, then sweeten to taste.

  2. Mix the boiled mixture with the egg mixture thoroughly.

Bake

  1. Butter a dish and pour the mixture into it.

  2. Sprinkle a little sugar over the top and place it in the oven.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Biscuit + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  4. Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Biscuit + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard as they cook, giving the pudding its body and structure.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the pudding a soft, smooth texture.
Sweet biscuits
Add sweetness and body, thickening the mixture as it is pounded and boiled.
Cowslip pips
Form the main bulk and flavour base of the pudding.

The step that matters

Mixing the boiled mixture with the eggs. Egg proteins set when heated, so the boiled mixture should be cooled slightly before it is combined thoroughly with the beaten eggs to avoid scrambling them and to keep the pudding smooth.

“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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