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Orange Pudding

A baked dessert made with sponge biscuits, eggs, lemon, orange juice, sugar, butter, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Grate the sponge biscuits.

  2. Mix with enough milk to form a paste.

  3. Beat the eggs.

Make the filling

  1. Stir in the lemon juice and grated lemon peel.

  2. Add the orange juice, sugar, and melted butter to the mixture. Stir well.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a dish lined with puff pastry.

  2. Bake at 300°F (150°C) for one hour.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Biscuit + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together697 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Biscuit + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together371 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard and give the pudding its structure as they cook.
Sponge biscuits
Form the base body of the pudding, soaking up liquid to hold the filling together.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the filling brown lightly as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and a soft, tender texture to the filling.
Orange juice
Adds citrus flavour and liquid that moistens the filling.

The step that matters

Baking the filling at a low temperature. Eggs set into a smooth custard when heated gently. Too much heat makes the egg proteins tighten and curdle, leaving the pudding grainy and watery.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Blueberryfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, milk, egg, lemon, sugar, butter. 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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