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Rich Baked Apple Pudding

A baked dessert made from stewed apple pulp, sugar, lemon rind, eggs, butter, and puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,551 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Rich Baked Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the apple pulp

  1. Peel, core, and cut the apples as for sauce.

  2. Place the apples in a saucepan with just enough water to prevent burning and stew until reduced to a pulp.

  3. Weigh the pulp; for every ½ pound, add sifted sugar, grated lemon rind, and 6 well-beaten eggs.

Make the pudding

  1. Beat the mixture well.

  2. Melt the butter and stir it in.

  3. Place a border of puff pastry around the dish.

  4. Pour the mixture into the dish.

Bake

  1. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for just over 30 minutes.

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

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

  2. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Apple pulp
Forms the bulk of the pudding and gives it a soft, moist body.
Eggs
Set when baked, giving the pudding structure and a custard-like texture.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, tender texture to the mixture.
Loaf sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps browning on the surface.
Puff paste
Forms a crisp, flaky border around the edge of the dish.

The step that matters

Stewing the apples to a pulp. If the apples are not cooked down fully, or are scorched because too little water was used, the pulp will be uneven and the pudding's texture will suffer. Weighing the pulp keeps the sugar, eggs and rind in the correct proportion.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, 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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