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Farmer's Apple Pudding

A baked apple pudding with butter, sugar, eggs, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Farmer's Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Stew the apples with very little water if they are juicy.

  2. Add ¼ pound of butter and sugar to taste to the hot mashed apples.

  3. Beat 4 eggs and stir them into the apple mixture once it is cold.

Assemble and bake

  1. Butter the bottom and sides of a deep pudding dish.

  2. Sprinkle the dish thickly with bread crumbs.

  3. Pour the apple mixture into the dish.

  4. Sprinkle more bread crumbs on top.

  5. Bake until golden.

Serve

  1. Sift sugar over the top before serving.

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.

Explore the science

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

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

  4. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  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

Eggs
Bind the apple mixture and help it set into a soft, custardy pudding when baked.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the pudding a tender texture and flavour.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, absorbent layer that soaks up moisture and browns on top.
Apples
Provide the main body, moisture and tart flavour of the pudding.

The step that matters

Let the apple mixture cool before adding the eggs. Beaten eggs added to a hot mixture can scramble and curdle, leaving lumps instead of a smooth, evenly set pudding.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

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