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Apple Pudding, Baked

A baked dessert made from apples, sugar, butter, eggs, and bread crumbs.

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 ↓

Apple Pudding, Baked

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Peel, core, and cut the apples.

  2. Boil the apples until reduced to a pulp.

Make the filling

  1. Add the melted butter and well-whisked eggs to the apple pulp.

  2. Beat the mixture for 2 to 3 minutes.

Assemble and bake

  1. Butter a pie dish and add a layer of bread crumbs.

  2. Pour in the apple mixture, then add another layer of bread crumbs on top.

  3. Dot with small pieces of butter and bake for about 1 hour.

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. Egg + breadtop 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
Break down into a pulp that forms the soft body of the pudding.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a moist, tender texture.
Moist sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown during baking.
Bread crumbs
Form layers that soak up moisture and add body to the pudding.

The step that matters

Beating the mixture after adding the eggs. Beating combines the eggs evenly with the apple pulp and butter so the pudding sets smoothly rather than curdling or separating in the oven.

Swap the apple

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

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

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