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Carrot Pudding

A steamed pudding made with grated carrot, potato, raisins, flour, butter, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Carrot Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine grated carrot and sugar.

  2. In another bowl, mix grated potato with baking soda.

  3. Combine the carrot mixture with the potato mixture.

Steam and serve

  1. Toss raisins in flour, then add to the mixture along with cinnamon and nutmeg.

  2. Steam the mixture for 3 hours.

  3. Serve with your favorite pudding 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.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Raisin + flourtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

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

  5. Raisin + nutmegtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated carrot
Provides moisture and natural sweetness, giving the pudding its body.
Grated potato
Adds moisture and starch, helping the pudding hold a soft, moist texture.
All-purpose flour
Provides starch and structure, helping the raisins and batter set during steaming.
Baking soda
Reacts with the mixture to help it rise and lighten during steaming.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender crumb.

The step that matters

Steam the mixture for 3 hours. Steaming gently and steadily cooks the starches and vegetables through without drying them out. Letting the water boil dry or lifting the lid often lowers the steam and can leave the pudding dense or unevenly cooked.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, raisin, flour, butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, raisin, flour, butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg. 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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