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Sweetmeats Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and plum work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Sweetmeats Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a pie crust and roll it out in a long oval shape.

  2. Spread thickly with raspberry or currant jam, or with stewed fruit.

  3. Wet the edges of the dough with cold water and roll it up, closing the edges tightly.

  4. Steam for an hour or more.

  5. Serve in slices with a sauce of butter and sugar beaten together, adding nutmeg or other flavoring.

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. Raspberry + plumtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Plum + nutmegtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Raspberry + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

  5. Plum + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together710 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raspberry, plum, butter, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Peppermintfits about as well
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raspberry, plum, butter, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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