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Windsor Pudding

A baked apple and rice pudding folded with stiff egg whites, served with custard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Windsor Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Pare and core the apples, then boil or bake them until soft.

  2. Beat the apples into a smooth pulp.

Make the mixture

  1. Cook the rice in milk until tender, then combine with the apple pulp, sugar, lemon juice, and lemon rind.

  2. Whisk the egg whites until stiff, then fold them into the mixture gently.

Steam and serve

  1. Dip a pudding mold in boiling water, then pour the mixture into it while hot.

  2. Cover the mold and place it in a large pan of boiling water, cooking until the egg whites are firm.

  3. Turn the pudding out and serve immediately with custard made from the egg yolks.

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.

Explore the science

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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Apple + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooking apples
Provide the bulk and flavor base, breaking down into a smooth pulp.
Carolina rice
Cooked in milk to thicken and give the pudding a soft, tender body.
Egg whites
Whisked and folded in to aerate the mixture and set it firm when cooked.
Milk
Softens the rice and adds moisture to the pudding base.
Powdered white sugar
Sweetens the pudding and dissolves smoothly into the apple pulp.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Whisked egg whites trap air, which lifts the pudding. Folding gently keeps that air in; stirring hard deflates the foam and leaves a dense, heavy pudding.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, sugar, lemon, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, sugar, lemon, 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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