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Sweet Potato Pone

A baked sweet potato pudding made with grated sweet potatoes, nut cream, malt, orange juice, orange rind, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweet potato and orange work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 191 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sweet Potato Pone

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. Peel and grate enough sweet potatoes to make 1 quart, grating quickly to prevent discoloration.

  2. Add nut cream, malt, orange juice, grated orange rind, and salt. Mix well.

  3. Pour the mixture into a pudding dish.

Bake

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 1 hour, or until the potatoes are done and the top is nicely browned.

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. Sweet potato + orangetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together191 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Sweet potato + creamtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Sweet potato + malttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5 recipes

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

  4. Malt + orangetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Cream + orangetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,170 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 starchy body that softens into the pudding as it bakes.
Nut cream
Adds richness and fat, giving the pudding a smooth, creamy texture.
Malt
Adds subtle sweetness and a toasty flavor that supports browning.
Orange juice
Adds acidity and bright citrus flavor that balances the sweetness.
Orange rind
Contributes aromatic citrus oils that scent the pudding without extra liquid.

The step that matters

Grate the sweet potatoes quickly. Grated sweet potato darkens quickly through oxidation when exposed to air. Working fast and keeping the pieces together limits discoloration, so the finished pudding stays light and appealing.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, cream, malt):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sweet potato, cream, malt. 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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