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Blackberry Sponge Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and blackberry work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 291 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Blackberry Sponge Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak gelatine in cold water, then add boiling water, sugar, lemon juice, and blackberry juice.

  2. When the sugar is dissolved, strain the mixture through cheesecloth.

  3. When the mixture is just beginning to set, beat it until light and thick with an egg beater.

  4. Fold in the beaten egg whites.

  5. Mould the mixture and serve with whipped cream or custard.

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. Lemon + blackberrytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together291 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

  3. Lemon + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + eggtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Blackberry + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together264 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

Lemon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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 blackberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits about as well
  3. Orangefits about as well
  4. Blackberrythe original

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

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