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Gooseberry Pudding, Baked

A baked pudding made from gooseberries, butter, bread crumbs, sugar, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Gooseberry Pudding, Baked

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 fruit

  1. Place the gooseberries in a jar and boil in a saucepan of water until soft.

  2. Press the softened gooseberries through a sieve.

Make and bake the pudding

  1. Add the butter, bread crumbs, sugar, and beaten eggs to the pulp once it has cooled.

  2. Pour the mixture into a buttered dish.

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

Serve

  1. Sprinkle sifted sugar over the pudding before serving.

  2. Serve hot or cold.

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Gooseberries
Provide the fruit pulp that gives the pudding its tart flavour and moist body.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set as it bakes.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the fruit pulp and give the pudding body and structure.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pulp and helps balance the gooseberries' tartness.

The step that matters

Press the softened gooseberries through a sieve. Pushing the cooked fruit through a sieve removes skins and seeds, leaving a smooth pulp. Lumps or seeds left in the pulp would give the baked pudding an uneven texture.

“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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