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Swedish Apple Pudding

A baked pudding of apples, butter, bread crumbs, sugar, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Swedish Apple Pudding

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. Prepare the apples for sauce and sweeten them.

  2. Add some butter to the sweetened apples.

  3. Fry a quantity of bread crumbs in butter.

  4. Line a mold thickly with the fried bread crumbs.

  5. Add the sweetened apples to the mold.

Assemble and bake

  1. When cold, mix in 2 well-beaten eggs.

  2. Cover the mixture with more bread crumbs.

  3. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for two hours.

Serve

  1. Turn out the pudding when serving.

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

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  4. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Cooked into a sauce that forms the moist, flavorful filling of the pudding.
Bread crumbs
Fried in butter to form a crisp, browned lining and topping that holds the filling.
Eggs
Bind the cooled apple mixture so it sets firm enough to turn out of the mold.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, and helps the fried crumbs brown.
Sugar
Sweetens the apples and balances their natural tartness.

The step that matters

Mix in the eggs only when the apple mixture is cold. Beaten eggs added to a hot mixture can scramble or cook unevenly, while cooled apples let the eggs blend smoothly and set evenly during baking.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, bread, 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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