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Another Way to Make Orange Pudding

A custard-like dessert made from Seville orange pulp, sugar, eggs, butter, wine, and rose water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,083 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Orange Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the orange paste

  1. Soak the oranges in cold water for 2 days, changing the water twice daily.

  2. Boil the oranges in cold water until tender.

  3. Remove seeds and pound the oranges with the sugar until smooth.

  4. Pack the mixture into jars and seal with paper.

Make the pudding

  1. To make the pudding, mix 2 tablespoons of the orange paste with the yolks, sugar, melted butter, white wine, and rose water.

  2. Beat the mixture for about 30 minutes.

  3. Bake in a dish lined with puff pastry.

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. White wine + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Orange + rosetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together876 recipes

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

  3. Orange + white winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together730 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. White wine + rosetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together162 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Seville oranges
Provide the bulk of the paste, with bitter, sharp flavour and aromatic peel oils.
Loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and, in the paste, helps preserve the cooked orange.
Egg yolks
Set during baking to give the pudding structure, and add richness.
Melted butter
Adds fat, giving a richer, softer texture to the pudding.

The step that matters

Beating the pudding mixture. Beating the yolks, sugar, butter and paste together for a long time blends them evenly and traps air, so the pudding bakes smooth rather than split or dense.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, white wine, rose, 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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