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Raspberry Pudding, Rich

A buttery raspberry pudding baked in puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream 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 ↓

Raspberry Pudding, Rich

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Beat the butter until creamy.

  2. Add sugar, cream, egg yolks, and raspberry jam; mix well.

Assemble and bake

  1. Line a shallow pie dish with puff pastry.

  2. Pour the mixture into the pastry.

  3. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until the pastry is done.

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

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Butter + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

  4. Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the filling a tender, creamy texture.
Egg yolks
Thicken the filling as they set and add richness and colour.
Puff pastry
Forms a flaky, crisp case that puffs and browns in the oven.
Raspberry jam
Adds fruity sweetness and acidity, flavouring the filling.

The step that matters

Baking until the pastry is done. Puff pastry needs enough oven heat to rise and brown fully. Underbaking leaves it soft and doughy, while the egg yolk filling needs to set without overcooking.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits about as well
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Coconutfits about as well

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