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Huckleberry Pudding

A boiled pastry crust filled with huckleberries, served with a syrup sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,842 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Huckleberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the crust

  1. Make a crust by mixing the suet, flour, and salt.

  2. Add cold water to form a paste.

Fill and boil

  1. Roll the crust thin and place huckleberries on top.

  2. Fold the edges of the crust over the berries, pinching to seal.

  3. Tie the pudding in a cloth and boil until cooked through.

Serve

  1. Remove from the cloth and place on a platter.

  2. Cut a square hole in the top and pour in syrup.

  3. Replace the piece of crust and serve.

Make the sauce

  1. For the sauce, combine sugar, flour, butter, and water with crushed huckleberries and bring to a boil.

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. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  4. Flour + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,540 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Beef + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

Flour and butter 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

Beef suet
Provides fat that keeps the crust rich and tender as it steams.
Flour
Forms the paste and gives the crust its structure.
Huckleberries
Supply the fruit filling and its tart, juicy flavor.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the sauce.
Sugar
Sweetens the sauce and balances the tartness of the berries.

The step that matters

Tie the pudding in a cloth and boil until cooked through. The cloth must be tied snugly so the pudding holds its shape and water cannot soak the crust. Boiling must be kept steady so the dough cooks through and turns tender rather than soggy.

“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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