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A Very Rich Pudding of Prime Ripe Fruit

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

A Very Rich Pudding of Prime Ripe Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Press the fruit through a sieve or grate the apples or pears.

  2. Scald the fruit in white wine for a few minutes, then remove skins and stones.

  3. Beat the fruit in a mortar until cold.

  4. Mix the fruit with rich custard, cream, eggs, bread-crumbs, and sugar.

  5. Add a glass of brandy or Sherry wine.

  6. Bake in a dish edged with puff-paste.

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. Apricot + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Apricot + brandytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together513 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Apple + white winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. White wine + brandytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together620 recipes

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

  5. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apricot, white wine, cream, egg, bread, sugar, brandy):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Plumfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apricot, white wine, cream, egg, bread, sugar, brandy. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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