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Snowdon Pudding

A steamed pudding made with beef suet, breadcrumbs, sugar, raisins, cherries, ground rice, lemon rind, cinnamon, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Snowdon Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mould

  1. Butter a mould or basin.

  2. Decorate the bottom and sides with some halved cherries and raisins.

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine the remaining cherries, raisins, suet, breadcrumbs, sugar, ground rice, lemon rind, cinnamon, and salt.

  2. Beat the eggs, then stir in the milk and marmalade until well mixed.

  3. Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and beat well.

Steam and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into the prepared mould.

  2. Cover with buttered paper.

  3. Steam for 1 to 1.5 hours.

  4. Serve with fruit syrup or a suitable sweet sauce.

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. Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Raisin + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 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

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help give the pudding its set structure when steamed.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the pudding its soft, bulky body.
Beef suet
Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and rich as it steams.
Castor sugar
Sweetens the pudding and contributes to its tender texture.
Ground rice
Adds a fine, slightly firm texture to the crumb.
Raisins
Provide concentrated sweetness and chewy fruit pieces throughout.

The step that matters

Steam for 1 to 1.5 hours. Steaming gently cooks the egg and starch set without drying the pudding. Keep the water boiling steadily and topped up, since a pot that boils dry or is left too hot can scorch the base or leave the centre underset.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, bread, sugar, raisin, rice, egg, milk. 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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