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A George Pudding

A sweet rice pudding flavored with apple jam, brandy, white wine, and candied peel.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

A George Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice base

  1. Boil the rice in the milk until tender.

  2. Let the mixture cool.

  3. Add the egg yolks, apple jam, white wine, and brandy to the rice mixture.

  4. Fold in the candied orange and citron peel.

Finish and bake

  1. Beat the egg whites to a solid froth.

  2. Gently incorporate the beaten egg whites into the mixture.

  3. Line a mold with tart paste.

  4. Fill the mold with the mixture.

  5. Bake until lightly colored.

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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  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. Apple + brandytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,291 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked in milk until tender, it thickens the pudding and gives it a soft body.
Egg yolks
Enrich the custard and help it set into a tender, rich texture.
Egg whites
Beaten to a froth and folded in, they lighten the mixture and add rise.
Apple jam
Adds sweetness and fruit flavor while moistening the filling.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to form a creamy base and adds moisture.

The step that matters

Gently incorporate the beaten egg whites. Beaten egg whites hold air that gives lightness. Folding gently preserves that foam; stirring vigorously knocks air out and leaves a denser pudding.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, egg, apple, white wine, brandy):

  1. Apricotfits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, egg, apple, white wine, brandy. 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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