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Apple Pudding

A baked apple dessert made with apples, sugar, raisins, cinnamon, almonds, wine, lemon peel, matzo flour, and eggs.

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

Why it works: Cinnamon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Apple 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 the apples

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Pare the apples and cut off the tops to use as covers.

  3. Carefully scrape out the insides of the apples without breaking them.

  4. Mix the apple scrapings with sugar, raisins, cinnamon, pounded almonds, and white wine.

  5. Fill the hollowed apples with the mixture and replace the tops.

  6. Grease a pudding dish with butter and place the apples inside.

  7. Stew the apples for a few minutes, being careful not to break them.

Make the batter and bake

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs with sugar and salt until thick, about 30 minutes.

  2. Add the grated lemon peel and matzo flour, mixing until combined.

  3. Pour the batter over the apples in the pudding dish and bake until set.

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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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 + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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

  3. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Apple + white winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together372 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Beaten until thick, they set the batter and give the pudding its structure.
Matzo flour
Provides the body of the batter, thickening it so it bakes into a firm pudding.
Apples
Hollowed and filled, they hold the filling and add fruit flavour and moisture.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and batter and helps the eggs whip to a stable foam.
Raisins
Add chewy sweetness to the apple filling.

The step that matters

Carefully scrape out the insides of the apples without breaking them. Thin apple walls tear easily. A breach lets the filling leak out during stewing and baking, leaving the pudding dry and uneven.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, raisin, cinnamon, almond, white wine, butter, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, raisin, cinnamon, almond, white wine, butter, egg. 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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