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Sweet Potato Pudding

A baked sweet potato custard made with grated sweet potatoes, eggs, butter, sugar, and sweet milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Sweet Potato 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

  1. Peel and grate the sweet potatoes.

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar.

  2. Add the eggs and stir well.

  3. Mix in the grated sweet potatoes and sweet milk, stirring briskly.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for one hour.

  2. Serve hot without 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Sweet potato + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together596 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Sweet potato + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,151 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes
Provide the bulk and starchy body that makes the pudding dense and moist.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that softens the texture and carries flavour.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps create light browning on the surface.
Sweet milk
Adds liquid that moistens the batter and helps it bake through evenly.

The step that matters

Creaming the butter and sugar. Beating butter with sugar traps air in the fat, which gives the pudding a lighter crumb. Softened butter creams more easily and evenly.

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, sugar, milk):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Sweet potatothe original
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, sugar, milk. 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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