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Apple Sauce for Puddings

A sauce made by baking apples, mashing them, and mixing with milk and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,104 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Apple Sauce for Puddings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bake the apples until soft.

  2. Remove the skins and mash the pulp.

  3. Mix in 2 tablespoons of milk and the yolk of the egg.

  4. Beat the egg white until stiff and pour it over the top.

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. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

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

  2. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  3. Apple + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,461 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the main pulp and sweet apple flavour that forms the body of the sauce.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the mashed apple into a smooth, spoonable sauce.
Egg
The yolk enriches and thickens the sauce, while the beaten white adds light, airy volume on top.

The step that matters

Beat the egg white until stiff. Egg white only holds its foam when beaten to stiff peaks with no trace of yolk or fat. Under-beaten or greasy whites collapse, leaving the topping flat and weepy.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, egg. 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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