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Potato Pudding

A baked or boiled pudding made with butter, sugar, egg yolks, grated potatoes, bread crumbs, and optional almond meal.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

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.

Make the batter

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.

  2. Add the egg yolks, grated potatoes, salt, cinnamon, and lemon rind; mix well.

  3. Stir in the bread crumbs and the beaten egg whites gently.

  4. If desired, add the almond meal and bitter almonds to the mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 60 to 70 minutes, or boil for 2 hours.

  2. Serve with stewed prunes or apple 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.

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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. Cinnamon + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Butter
Creams with sugar to trap air, giving the pudding a light, tender crumb and rich flavour.
Egg yolks
Enrich the batter and help it set into a custard-like texture as it cooks.
Egg whites
Whipped into the batter to add lift and a lighter, airier structure.
Grated potatoes
Add body and moisture, giving the pudding a dense, soft texture.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and add bulk, helping the pudding hold its shape.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Stirring the whites gently keeps the air bubbles they hold intact. Overmixing deflates them, so the pudding bakes denser and less light.

“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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