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Tipsy Parson Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,294 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Tipsy Parson Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour enough wine and water over the slices of stale sponge cake to cover them.

  2. Once soaked, drain off the water.

  3. Prepare a steamed custard and pour it over the soaked cake.

  4. Serve cold.

  5. Optionally, flavor the custard with vanilla or lemon.

  6. For decoration, beat the egg white until stiff and drop it over the top.

  7. Place coconut macaroons around the edge if desired.

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. Vanilla + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Wine + vanillatop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together887 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Vanilla + eggtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together27,347 recipes

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

  4. Wine + coconuttop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Egg + coconuttop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Vanilla and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 27,347 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

Swap the vanilla

The recipe marks vanilla as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wine, egg, coconut):

  1. Vanillathe original
  2. Pineapplefits about as well
  3. Bananafits about as well
  4. Mangofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, egg, coconut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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