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Strawberry Pudding

A steamed pudding made with butter, sugar, flour, baking powder, strawberry juice, egg whites, and topped with fresh strawberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and flour 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 ↓

Strawberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together.

  2. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together, then add to the creamed mixture.

  3. Stir in the strawberry juice.

  4. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

Fill and steam

  1. Butter pudding cups and place a large strawberry in the bottom of each.

  2. Cover with batter, add another layer of strawberries, and top with more batter, filling cups a little over half full.

  3. Steam for 30 minutes and serve hot with strawberry 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. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Butter + strawberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour 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

Egg whites
Stiffly beaten whites trap air, giving the pudding a light, risen texture.
Flour
Forms the structure of the batter as it sets during steaming.
Butter
Creamed with sugar to add richness and a tender crumb.
Baking powder
Releases gas during cooking, helping the pudding rise.
Strawberry juice
Adds moisture and strawberry flavour to the batter.

The step that matters

Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Folding gently keeps the air beaten into the whites. Stirring hard knocks that air out, so the pudding steams up dense instead of light.

Swap the strawberry

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Strawberrythe original

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