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Sutherland Pudding

A custard-like pudding made with butter, sugar, eggs, milk, candied peel, and pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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

  2. Line a pie dish with thin pastry.

Make the filling

  1. Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy.

  2. Add four beaten eggs and chopped candied peel to the mixture.

  3. In a separate bowl, make a custard by combining the milk and two eggs.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the custard into the bottom of the dish, then add the mixed ingredients on top.

  2. Bake for one hour.

  3. Serve with fruit 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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

  4. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the filling and set the custard, giving the pudding its structure.
Fresh butter
Adds richness and a tender texture to the filling.
Castor sugar
Sweetens the filling and, creamed with butter, traps air for a lighter crumb.
Milk
Provides the liquid that turns the eggs into a custard, adding moisture.
Candied orange and lemon peel
Adds citrus aroma and a bright, slightly tart flavour.

The step that matters

Beat the butter and sugar until creamy. Creaming softens the butter and works sugar into it, trapping air bubbles that lighten the texture. Under-beating leaves a dense pudding.

Swap the orange

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

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

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