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White Puddings, Sweet

A sweet pudding made from pork kidney fat, flour, sugar, currants, candied peel, almonds, and milk, boiled in casings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

White Puddings, Sweet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the pork kidney fat with salt, flour, powdered sugar, currants, ground rice, candied lemon peel, candied orange peel, sweet almonds, bitter almonds, and nutmeg.

  2. Moisten the mixture with milk and bind it together with the whisked eggs.

  3. Beat the mixture with a wooden spoon for 20 minutes.

Fill and boil

  1. Transfer the mixture into well-cleaned sausage casings, leaving room for expansion, and tie the ends securely.

  2. Place the puddings in boiling water and boil gently for about 2.5 hours.

  3. Remove the casings.

Store and reheat

  1. If desired, hang the puddings in a cool place and re-boil for 15 minutes before serving.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Orange + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

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

  4. Rice + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

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

  5. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork kidney fat
Adds richness and moisture, and melts during cooking to keep the pudding tender.
Eggs
Bind the mixture together and help it set when cooked.
Ground rice
Adds body and a light, slightly crumbly texture to the pudding.
All-purpose flour
Adds structure, helping the mixture hold together after binding.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the moist mixture.

The step that matters

Boil gently rather than vigorously. Vigorous boiling can split or burst the casings and make the pudding tough or uneven, while gentle heat cooks the eggs and sets the mixture evenly.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, flour, sugar, rice, lemon, orange, almond):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, flour, sugar, rice, lemon, orange, almond. 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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