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Grated Apple Pudding

A baked pudding made with grated apples, ladyfingers, eggs, sugar, lemon peel, topped with blanched almonds and served with cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Grated 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

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, beat the egg yolks with the powdered sugar until thick like batter.

  2. Add the grated apples, grated lady fingers, lemon peel, and beaten egg whites to the mixture. Mix until well combined.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a well-greased springform pan.

  2. Strew blanched almonds on top.

  3. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until set.

  4. Serve warm with cream.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

  4. Apple + almondtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,025 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Almond + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks, they lighten the pudding and help it rise and set with air.
Egg yolks
Beaten with sugar, they enrich the batter and help it set into a custard-like texture.
Tart apples
Grated into the batter, they add moisture and a fresh acidity that balances the sweetness.
Lady fingers
Grated into the batter, they soak up moisture and add body to the pudding.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Stiffly beaten egg whites trap air that gives the pudding lift. Mixing them in too vigorously deflates that air, which leads to a dense, heavy result.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, lemon, almond, cream. 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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