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Strawberry Pudding

A steamed pudding made with strawberries, milk, flour, eggs, butter, and baking powder.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Strawberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Do not wash the strawberries.

  2. Stir the milk and melted butter into the beaten eggs.

  3. Gradually add the flour, stirring constantly to prevent lumps.

  4. Dredge the strawberries with flour and fold them into the mixture.

Steam and serve

  1. Turn the pudding into a greased mold.

  2. Steam for 3 hours, adding boiling water to the outer vessel as needed.

  3. Serve with hard 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.

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberries
Provide the fruit flavor and pieces that stay distinct in the set pudding.
Flour
Builds the structure that sets the batter into a firm, sliceable pudding.
Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set as it steams.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the batter.
Baking powder
Releases gas to lighten the pudding as it heats.

The step that matters

Dredge the strawberries with flour before folding. A light coating of flour helps the berries stay suspended instead of sinking to the bottom as the batter thickens and sets. Folding gently keeps the batter airy and avoids deflating the leavening.

“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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