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Buffalo Fuddiko

A steamed pudding made with flour, baking powder, cornstarch, butter, cold water, and berries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Buffalo Fuddiko

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Mix the baking powder with the flour thoroughly.

  2. Add the salt and cornstarch, then mix to a drop cake consistency.

  3. Melt the butter and stir it into the mixture.

Assemble and steam

  1. In a buttered tin pan or steamer, drop part of the mixture, then layer with berries and top with more batter.

  2. Steam the pudding for 1.5 hours, ensuring the water boils continuously and the pan is tightly covered.

Serve

  1. Serve with a liquid sauce.

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. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the main structure of the pudding as it sets during steaming.
Baking powder
Releases gas during steaming so the pudding rises and stays light.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the pudding a tender texture.
Berries
Add moisture, flavor and natural sweetness, and are layered through the batter.

The step that matters

Keep the water boiling continuously under a tight lid. Steam is what cooks and lifts the batter. If the water stops boiling or the lid lets steam escape, the pudding cooks unevenly and can turn out heavy and wet in places.

“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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