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Huckleberry Pudding

A baked pudding made with huckleberries, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Huckleberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, cream together the sugar and butter.

  2. Add the milk and eggs, mixing well.

  3. Stir in the huckleberries, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt.

  4. Mix until the batter is thick like gingerbread.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a tin pail.

  2. Boil for 2 hours.

  3. Serve with sauce.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure as they set during cooking.
Baking soda
Reacts with the cream of tartar to produce gas that lightens the pudding.
Cream of tartar
Acidic partner to the baking soda, helping the pudding rise and giving a tender crumb.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture.
Huckleberries
Provide fruit flavor, moisture, and color throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Mix until the batter is thick like gingerbread.. The batter must be thick enough to hold the berries evenly and trap the gas from the baking soda and cream of tartar; a thin batter lets the berries sink and the pudding turn heavy.

“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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