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Snowdon Pudding

A steamed pudding made with raisins, suet, bread crumbs, ground rice, sugar, lemon rind, marmalade, milk, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Snowdon Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Butter a pudding basin well.

  2. Stone the raisins and arrange them cut side down in the basin.

Make and steam the pudding

  1. In a bowl, mix the suet, bread crumbs, ground rice, sugar, lemon rind, and salt.

  2. Add the marmalade and milk to the mixture and combine well.

  3. Pour the mixture into the prepared basin and cover with greased paper.

  4. Steam for one 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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Raisin + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and add structure as the pudding sets while steaming.
Suet
Adds richness and fat, keeping the pudding moist and tender.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the milk and eggs to give the pudding body.
Marmalade
Adds sweetness and a bright citrus flavour.
Raisins
Provide chewy pockets of sweetness throughout the finished pudding.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raisin, bread, rice, sugar, milk, 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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