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English Apple Pudding

A steamed apple pudding made with sliced apples, sugar, pastry lining, and flavoring extract.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

English Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat a large pot of water to boiling.

  2. Prepare the pastry and line an earthenware dish with it.

Assemble and steam

  1. Pack the sliced apples into the dish and sprinkle with sugar and flavoring extract.

  2. Wet the edges of the pastry, cover the apples, and pinch the edges tightly together.

  3. Place the dish in the boiling water and steam until cooked through.

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. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Form the bulk of the filling, softening as they steam and releasing moisture into the dish.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps draw juice from the apples to form a syrup.

The step that matters

Pinch the pastry edges tightly. A tight seal keeps steam and juices inside the dish. If the edges open, the filling can leak and the pudding may dry out or cook unevenly.

“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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