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Veal Suet Pudding

A pudding made by boiling milk over crumbled rolls, veal suet, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, and optional eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and nutmeg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,377 recipes. Both carry alpha-terpineol, which smells lilac, floral. The science ↓

Veal Suet Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Pour boiling milk over the crumbled rolls.

  2. Add the melted veal suet, chopped raisins, sugar, and grated nutmeg.

  3. If desired, add eggs and mix well.

Cook

  1. Boil or bake in a buttered dish.

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. Raisin + nutmegtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

  2. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

  3. Milk + raisintop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

  4. Milk + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Nutmeg + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together24,744 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Nutmeg and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 24,744 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

Penny rolls
Soak up the hot milk and form the body of the pudding.
Veal suet
Adds richness and fat, giving the pudding a moist, tender texture.
Eggs
Help bind the mixture and set it as it cooks.
Milk
Softens the rolls and provides moisture for a custard-like crumb.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, veal, sugar, nutmeg, egg):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, veal, sugar, nutmeg, egg. 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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