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Irish Potato Pudding

A baked pudding made from mashed potatoes, butter, sugar, eggs, cream, and puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Irish Potato Pudding

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. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Roll out the puff pastry and line a baking dish with it.

Make the filling

  1. In a large bowl, combine the mashed potato, butter, and sugar until smooth.

  2. Add the beaten eggs and cream, mixing well.

  3. Pour the potato mixture into the pastry-lined dish.

Bake

  1. Bake in the preheated oven until set and golden, about 30-40 minutes.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  4. Potato + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

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

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potato
Forms the body of the pudding and gives it a soft, starchy texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a smooth, tender texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the golden browning of the surface.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set on baking to give the pudding its structure.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling smooth and creamy.
Puff pastry
Forms a flaky crust that holds the filling in the baking dish.

The step that matters

Baking until set. Eggs thicken as their proteins coagulate when heated. Underbaking leaves the custardy filling runny, while overbaking can make it dry or curdled, so check for a firm centre and golden top.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Leekfits about as well
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Chivefits about as well

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