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Apple Pudding. Family Style.

Apple pudding made with apples, sugar, cinnamon, lemon rind, butter, bread crumbs, currants, milk, eggs, and spices, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Apple Pudding. Family Style.

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. Peel and dice the apples.

  2. Core the apples and fill with sugar, cinnamon, and lemon rind.

Make the custard

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together.

  2. Boil the milk and stir in the creamed mixture.

  3. Add the bread crumbs and diced apples, then remove from heat.

  4. Fold in the beaten egg whites.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour into a pudding dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) until golden.

  2. Serve hot with wine or brandy sauce.

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 + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  5. Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Add moisture, tartness and body that soften into the pudding as it bakes.
Bread crumbs
Provide the bulk and structure that hold the pudding together and absorb the milk.
Eggs
Set the mixture as it bakes and add richness and structure to the pudding.
Milk
Provides the liquid that, with the eggs, forms a soft custard around the crumbs.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender, soft texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top turn golden as it bakes.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites. Folding gently keeps the air in the whites, which helps the pudding rise and stay light. Stirring vigorously deflates the foam and leaves a denser pudding.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar, cinnamon, lemon, butter, bread, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, sugar, cinnamon, lemon, butter, bread, milk. 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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