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Dried Apple Pudding Boiled

A boiled pudding made from dried apples, bread, butter, sugar, flour, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Dried Apple Pudding Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Boil the dried apples until nearly done.

  2. Save ½ cup of the apple juice for the sauce.

  3. Chop the apples.

  4. Mix the chopped apples with soaked bread.

  5. Place the mixture in a bag.

  6. Boil the mixture in the bag.

Make the sauce

  1. Melt butter.

  2. Mix the melted butter with sugar and flour.

  3. Add enough apple juice to flavor the sauce.

  4. Spice the sauce with nutmeg.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Apple + nutmegtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Dried apples
Provide the main fruit body, sweetness and apple flavor to the pudding.
Bread
Soaked bread adds body and absorbs moisture, helping bind the chopped apples together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the sauce and carries its flavor.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the sauce.
Flour
Thickens the butter mixture into a sauce when heated with liquid.
Nutmeg
Adds warm aroma to the sauce.

The step that matters

Thickening the sauce. Flour thickens only when its starch is heated with liquid and fat, so the sauce needs enough heat to set smoothly rather than stay floury and thin.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, sugar, flour, nutmeg. 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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