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Gelatine Pudding

A chilled dessert made with gelatin, lemon, sugar, sherry, egg whites, and fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and peach work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 947 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Gelatine Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gelatine

  1. Soak the gelatine in 1 cup cold water overnight.

  2. In the morning, add 2 cups boiling water, lemon juice, and sugar to the soaked gelatine.

  3. Let the mixture stand until cold, then stir in the sherry wine.

Add the egg whites

  1. Whip the egg whites to stiff peaks.

  2. Fold the whipped egg whites into the mixture one spoonful at a time.

Set and serve

  1. Line a mold or round-bottomed dish with fruit.

  2. Pour the mixture into the lined mold.

  3. Let the pudding harden.

  4. Serve with cream or custard.

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. Lemon + peachtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

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

  2. Sherry + peachtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Lemon + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Wine + peachtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  5. Lemon + sherrytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,273 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable pudding as it cools.
Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks, they add airy lightness to the set pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the tartness of the lemon.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and flavour of the pudding.
Sherry wine
Adds aromatic flavour to the pudding.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Whipped egg whites hold air that gives the pudding its lightness. Adding them one spoonful at a time, folding gently, keeps the foam from deflating, while the mixture is cool but not yet setting, so the whites blend evenly without losing volume.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, sugar, sherry, wine, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, sugar, sherry, wine, 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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