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White Puddings

A sausage-like dish made from calf's frill, bacon, bread crumbs, sausage meat, onion, salt, pepper, and egg yolks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

White Puddings

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

  1. Soak the calf's frill in cold water until needed.

  2. Boil the frill in salted water and cool before mincing.

Make the mixture

  1. Mix minced frill, bacon, bread crumbs, and sausage meat in a bowl.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, and boiled onion.

  3. Bind the mixture with egg yolks.

Stuff and cook

  1. Stuff the mixture into cleaned sausage skins.

  2. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) or broil over a clear fire until hot.

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. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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

  3. Bread + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Calf's frill
Provides the main bulk and tender, mild texture of the pudding.
Bread crumbs
Soaked crumbs absorb moisture and help the filling stay tender and cohesive.
Egg yolks
Bind the mixture so it holds together when cooked.
Sausage meat
Adds fat and savoury flavour, keeping the filling moist.
Bacon
Adds fat and smoky, savoury flavour throughout the filling.

The step that matters

Bind the mixture with egg yolks. Egg yolks set when heated and hold the minced ingredients together. Too few yolks or an overly wet mix can leave the filling crumbly or loose once cooked.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, meat, pepper, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, meat, pepper, 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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