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Apple Pudding — No. 1

Apple pudding made with applesauce, eggs, sugar, butter, and grated bread or cake, baked and served with cream or sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Apple Pudding — No. 1

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the batter

  1. Cook apples until they are a pulp.

  2. Add powdered sugar, grated bread or cake, and beaten eggs.

  3. Place mixture in a buttered dish and stir in melted butter.

  4. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for twenty minutes.

  2. Serve with cream or 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Apple sauce
Provides the main body and moisture of the pudding.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set as it bakes, and the whites add lightness when beaten.
Grated bread or cake
Absorbs liquid and gives the pudding a soft, tender crumb.
Melted butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the pudding and dissolves easily into the mixture.

The step that matters

Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Folding gently keeps the air trapped in the whites. That air expands in the oven and lifts the pudding, so stirring or deflating the whites makes it dense.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Raisinfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, egg, sugar, butter, bread. 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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