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Marmalade Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Marmalade Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil a saucepan of warm water.

  2. Chop the suet finely after removing the skin.

  3. Sift the bread crumbs through a wire sieve to obtain 3 oz.

  4. In a bowl, combine 3 oz flour, ¼ teaspoon coarse sea salt, and the chopped suet; rub together to avoid lumps.

  5. Add the bread crumbs and 4 oz moist sugar, then grate the lemon rind into the mixture.

  6. Incorporate 1 oz candied peel and 3 tablespoons marmalade, mixing well.

  7. Squeeze the lemon juice into the mixture, add 1 egg, and mix thoroughly.

  8. Butter a pint basin and pour the mixture in until full.

  9. Prepare a pudding cloth by wetting it in warm and then cold water, sprinkle with flour, cover the basin, and tie securely with string.

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. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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 lemon

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

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

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

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