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Carrot Pudding

A baked pudding made with grated carrots, bread, egg whites, butter, cream or milk, wine, rose-water, spices, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Carrot 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).

  2. Grate the carrots and bread.

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine grated carrots, bread, egg whites, butter, cream or milk, wine, rose-water, and spices, and mix well until combined.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and cover with puff pastry.

  2. Bake for 1 hour.

  3. Remove from the oven and sprinkle sugar on top before serving.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Provide moisture, body and natural sweetness to the pudding.
Bread
Absorbs liquids and gives the pudding its soft, crumb-like structure.
Egg whites
Set during baking to bind the pudding and give it firmness.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender texture.
Cream or milk
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the pudding soft after baking.

The step that matters

Baking until fully set. The egg whites coagulate as the pudding bakes, which firms the mixture. Removing it too early leaves it loose and wet in the centre, while baking too long can make it dry and tough.

Swap the carrot

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, egg, butter, cream, wine, rose, sugar. 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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