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Grated Sweet Potato Pudding

A baked sweet potato pudding made with grated sweet potatoes, sweet milk, eggs, flour, sugar, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Grated Sweet Potato 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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix the grated sweet potatoes with the sweet milk.

  2. Add the beaten eggs, sugar, butter, and flour to the mixture.

  3. Pour the mixture into a buttered baking pan.

Bake

  1. Bake until brown.

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.

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Sweet potato + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together627 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Provides the bulk and starch that give the pudding its body and sweetness.
Eggs
Set when baked, giving the pudding structure and a firm, custard-like texture.
Sweet milk
Adds moisture and liquid so the grated potatoes can soften and blend into a batter.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown during baking.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture.
Flour
Adds a little starch to help thicken the batter and hold its shape.

The step that matters

Bake until brown. The record gives no time or temperature for doneness beyond color. Eggs set as they bake, so the pudding should be firm in the center, not just browned on top. Check the center before removing it from the oven.

Swap the sweet potato

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

  1. Sweet potatothe original
  2. Leekfits about as well
  3. Arrowrootfits about as well
  4. Chivefits about as well

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