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Frozen Apple Pudding

A dessert of stewed apples mixed with orange rind, peach jam, raisins, almonds, cherries, citron, curacao, and whipped cream, then frozen.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,781 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Frozen Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the apple base

  1. Stew the apples until soft.

  2. Mix in the grated orange rind, peach jam, and sugar.

  3. Mash the mixture through a coarse sieve and freeze.

Prepare the fruit and nut mixture

  1. Simmer the raisins in a little water with 1 tablespoon of sugar until tender, then drain.

  2. Add the chopped almonds, preserved cherries, and citron to the raisins.

  3. Combine this mixture with a little curacao and the whipped cream.

Freeze and serve

  1. When nearly frozen, pack the mixture into a mold and bury it in ice.

  2. Serve turned out on lace paper.

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. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Apple + peachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Peach + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Orange + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Orange + peachtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together385 recipes

    Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).

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 soft pulp that gives the pudding its body and flavour.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and softens the texture of the frozen mixture.
Peach jam
Adds fruit flavour and sweetness along with a little pectin-based body.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and air, giving the frozen pudding a light, creamy texture.
Preserved cherries
Add sweetness, chewy texture and concentrated fruit flavour.

The step that matters

When nearly frozen, pack the mixture into a mold and bury it in ice.. If the mixture is fully frozen before packing, it will not fill the mold evenly or blend smoothly with the whipped cream. Packing while still soft lets it set firm and hold its shape when turned out.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, orange, peach, sugar, almond, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, orange, peach, sugar, almond, cream. 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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