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Sandwich Pudding

A baked apple pudding with a buttery batter and a sweet sauce flavored with lemon or vanilla.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Sandwich 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. Butter a quart pudding dish and fill it half full with sliced tart apples.

Make the pudding

  1. In a bowl, mix together 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, ½ cup butter, ½ cup milk, 1 teaspoon cream of tartar, ½ teaspoon baking soda, and 1½ cups flour to make a batter.

  2. Pour the batter over the apples and bake for 30 to 40 minutes.

Make the sauce

  1. Beat together 1 cup sugar and ½ cup butter for the sauce.

  2. Stir 1 tablespoon cornstarch into 1 cup boiling water, boil for 1 minute, and pour over the sugar and butter mixture, stirring thoroughly.

  3. Flavor the sauce with lemon or vanilla.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

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

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

  4. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

What each ingredient does

Tart apples
Provide the fruit base that softens under the batter and releases tartness into the pudding.
Flour
Forms the structure of the batter so it sets around the apples as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and tenderness to the batter and the sauce.
Egg
Binds the batter and helps it set during baking.
Cream of tartar
Acidifies the batter and reacts with baking soda to help it rise.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acid in the cream of tartar to produce gas that lightens the batter.

The step that matters

Stirring cornstarch into boiling water. Cornstarch must be fully dispersed in boiling water before it is poured over the sugar and butter; boiling activates its thickening so the sauce turns smooth and slightly thick rather than lumpy.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, egg, butter, milk, cream, flour, sauce. 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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