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Southeen Sweet Potato Pudding

A baked sweet potato pudding made with boiled sweet potatoes, butter, milk, eggs, sugar, lemon rind, and brandy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Southeen Sweet Potato 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 batter

  1. Mash the hot boiled sweet potatoes and butter together through a sieve.

  2. Add the sweet milk, beaten eggs, salt, sugar, lemon rind, and brandy.

  3. Mix all ingredients together and beat well.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 20 minutes.

  2. Dust the top with powdered sugar 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Sweet potato + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together314 recipes

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

  3. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  4. Butter + brandytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Sweet potato + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together596 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Provide the bulk and soft, moist body of the pudding.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a tender, smooth texture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set it into a custard-like structure as it bakes.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown during baking.
Sweet milk
Adds moisture and liquid so the batter bakes smoothly.

The step that matters

Beat the batter well. Thorough beating blends the butter, potato and eggs into an even batter, so the pudding sets evenly rather than splitting or baking unevenly in patches.

Swap the sweet potato

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

  1. Sweet potatothe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Arrowrootfits about as well
  4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, milk, egg, sugar, lemon, brandy. 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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