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Carrot Pudding

A steamed pudding made with grated carrots, eggs, milk, flour, syrup, and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 537 recipes. Both carry 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol, which smells smoky, clove. The science ↓

Carrot Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scrape and grate the carrots.

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine the eggs, milk, flour, syrup, and cinnamon to make a batter.

  2. Add the grated carrots to the batter and mix well.

Steam

  1. Pour the mixture into a buttered mold.

  2. Steam the pudding for 2½ to 3 hours.

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. Wheat + cinnamontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together537 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  2. Carrot + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together981 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Carrot + wheattop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together231 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Provide the bulk, moisture and sweetness that give the pudding its body.
Eggs
Bind the batter and set it into a firm, sliceable pudding as it cooks.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness, helping the batter cook into a tender texture.
Wheat flour
Provides the starch and structure that hold the pudding together.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and helps the pudding brown slightly and stay moist.

The step that matters

Steaming the pudding for the full time. Steaming gently sets the eggs and flour into a cohesive crumb without drying the pudding. Cutting the time short leaves the centre wet and loose, while the steam must stay steady so the pudding cooks evenly.

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk, wheat, flour, syrup, cinnamon):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, wheat, flour, syrup, cinnamon. 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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