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Berry Pudding

A steamed dessert made with layers of berry and cream‑of‑tartar dough, served with sweet sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Berry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dough

  1. Prepare cream of tartar dough as you would for biscuits.

  2. Roll the dough very thin.

Assemble the pudding

  1. Line the bottom of a pudding mold (a Charlotte Russe mold works well).

  2. Layer berries in the mold, followed by a layer of dough, repeating until the mold is full.

Steam and serve

  1. Place the mold in a steamer and steam for four hours, adjusting time based on pudding size.

  2. Serve with a rich sweet 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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Biscuit + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cream + biscuittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream of tartar dough
Forms the pudding's tender layers, which set and hold the berries together as it steams.
Berries
Supply moisture and fruity flavor, softening and sweetening as they cook in the steam.

The step that matters

Steam and serve. Steaming gently and for the full time lets the dough cook through and the berries soften without drying out. Checking that the steamer keeps a steady simmer helps the pudding set evenly.

“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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