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Potato Pudding

A sweet baked dessert made from mashed potatoes, butter, sugar, cream, eggs, brandy, orange peel, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Potato Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Mash the boiled potatoes with the cream.

  2. Once cool, add the butter and sugar beaten to a cream.

  3. Incorporate the whisked eggs and all other ingredients.

Bake

  1. Bake in a pastry crust.

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. Potato + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Orange + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

  5. Potato + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together537 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the pudding a tender, smooth texture.
Eggs
Set during baking to give the pudding its custard-like structure.
Mashed potatoes
Provide body and moisture, giving the filling a dense, soft texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the mixture beat to a light, creamed texture.
Cream
Adds moisture and fat, making the filling richer and smoother.

The step that matters

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream before adding the eggs. Creaming softens the butter and traps air in the mixture; if the butter is too cold or the eggs are added too quickly, the batter can curdle or turn out heavy.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, potato, cream, egg, brandy, nutmeg. 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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