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Baked Apple Puddings

A baked dessert of stewed apples mixed with eggs and encased in puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,461 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Baked Apple Puddings

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 the apples

  1. Peel and core the apples, then stew them until soft.

  2. Allow the stewed apples to cool.

Assemble the pudding

  1. Beat the eggs well and mix them with the cooled apples.

  2. Line a baking dish with puff pastry around the rim.

  3. Pour the apple and egg mixture into the dish.

Bake

  1. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven until set and golden.

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. Apple + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,461 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the main body and flavour, softening into a moist, sweet filling when stewed.
Eggs
Set the mixture as they cook, giving the pudding a firm, custard-like structure.
Puff pastry
Forms the flaky, crisp pastry edge that holds the filling and browns in the oven.

The step that matters

Bake until set and golden. Eggs set through heat, so the pudding must bake long enough to firm up. Underbaking leaves it runny in the centre, while overbaking can make the egg curdle or turn rubbery.

“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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