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Baked Apple Pudding

A baked dessert of grated apples, sugar, butter, lemon, cream, eggs, and puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Line a baking dish with puff pastry.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar together.

  2. Add the grated apples, lemon rind, and lemon juice; mix well.

  3. Stir in the cream or milk and eggs until combined.

  4. Pour the mixture into the lined dish.

Bake

  1. Bake for 1 hour until set.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide bulk and moisture, and their tartness balances the sugar.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and, creamed with butter, helps give the filling a light texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour and softening the filling.
Eggs
Set during baking to give the pudding its structure.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and richness, making the filling soft and custard-like.
Lemon
Adds acidity and aroma that brighten the sweetness of the filling.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Eggs set as they heat, so pulling the pudding too early leaves a runny centre, while overbaking can make it dry and rubbery. Checking for a firm centre at the stated time helps prevent both.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, lemon, cream, 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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