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Small Almond Puddings

Small almond puddings are sweet, buttery desserts made from ground almonds, butter, sugar, cream, brandy, and egg whites, baked in cups.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Small Almond Puddings

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Small Almond 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

  1. Blanch the almonds.

  2. Pound the blanched almonds to a smooth paste with 1 tablespoon of water.

  3. Warm the butter.

  4. Mix the warm butter with the almond paste.

Make the batter

  1. Add the sifted sugar, cream, brandy, and beaten egg whites to the mixture. Mix well.

  2. Butter the cups.

  3. Half fill the cups with the mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 20 to 30 minutes.

  2. Turn the puddings out onto a dish and serve with sweet 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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Butter + brandytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cream + brandytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,635 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet almonds
Provide the main body and nutty flavour of the paste.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the almond paste.
Eggs
Egg whites add structure and help the puddings set when baked.
Sifted sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the texture stay smooth.

The step that matters

Half fill the cups with the mixture.. Egg whites expand in the oven, so overfilling can cause the puddings to spill over or bake unevenly.

“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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