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Carrot Pudding

A steamed pudding made with grated carrot, potato, sugar, flour, raisins, currants, spices, butter, nuts, and citron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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

Make the batter

  1. In a large bowl, combine grated carrot, grated potato, sugar, flour, raisins, currants, cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking soda.

  2. Melt the butter and mix it into the batter.

  3. If desired, fold in chopped nuts and citron.

Steam and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a greased pudding mold.

  2. Steam the pudding for 3 hours.

  3. Serve with any kind of 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 + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Flour + raisintop 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
Adds moisture and natural sweetness to the batter.
Flour
Provides the structure that holds the pudding together as it steams.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps give the pudding a tender, moist crumb.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender texture and flavor.
Baking soda
Reacts with the batter to help it rise and lighten.
Raisins
Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness throughout the pudding.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, potato, sugar, flour, raisin, 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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