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Baked Apple Pudding

A baked dessert made with apples, sugar, butter, bread crumbs, brandy, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked 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. Boil the apples until soft, then mash them.

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine the mashed apples, sugar, butter, bread crumbs, brandy, and beaten eggs. Mix well until all ingredients are combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish.

Bake

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) until set and lightly browned.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

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

  5. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the bulk and moisture, and their natural sweetness and flavor shape the pudding.
Eggs
Set the mixture into a firm, custard-like structure as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a softer, more tender texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the pudding brown lightly in the oven.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and help give the pudding body.

The step that matters

Bake until set and lightly browned. Egg proteins set as they heat, so underbaking leaves the pudding loose, while overbaking can make it dry and rubbery. Watch for a firm center and light browning.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, bread, brandy, 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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