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Carrot Pudding

A sweet pudding made with grated carrot, potato, sugar, flour, raisins, butter, and spices, boiled for three hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Carrot Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a large bowl, combine grated carrot, grated potato, sugar, flour, raisins (or currants), and butter.

  2. Add baking soda, cloves, cinnamon, grated nutmeg, and salt. Mix well.

  3. Transfer the mixture to a greased pudding mold.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil for three hours.

  2. 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.

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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Carrot
Provides moisture and natural sweetness, giving the pudding its body.
Potato
Adds starch and moisture, helping the pudding hold together and stay soft.
Flour
Forms the structure that holds the grated vegetables and fruit together.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender, moist crumb.
Baking soda
Reacts with the mixture to lighten the pudding and help it rise.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps keep the pudding moist.

The step that matters

Boiling for three hours. The pudding must be cooked through slowly in gently simmering water so the starches set and the batter stays moist. Boiling too hard or letting the water run low can cause uneven cooking or a dry, dense result.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, sugar, flour, raisin, butter, clove, cinnamon):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, sugar, flour, raisin, butter, clove, cinnamon. 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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