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Raspberry Pudding

A baked dessert made with raspberry jam, cream, egg yolks, sugar, and clarified butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter 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 ↓

Raspberry 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).

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, mix the raspberry jam, cream, egg yolks, and sugar until well combined.

  2. Add the clarified butter and mix thoroughly.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a dish lined with puff pastry.

  2. Bake until set and lightly golden.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

  4. Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Thicken the filling and set it into a custard-like texture when baked.
Clarified butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a smooth, tender texture to the filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling soft and smooth.
Raspberry jam
Provides sweetness, fruit flavour and body to the filling.

The step that matters

Baking until set. Egg yolks set as they heat, and overbaking can make the filling curdle or turn grainy. Bake only until the centre is just set and the top is lightly golden, then let it cool to finish setting.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits about as well
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Coconutfits about as well

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