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A George Pudding

A baked rice and apple pudding with wine, citrus, and egg, served with a wine‑sugar sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

A George Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the rice in milk with the lemon peel until tender.

  2. Drain the rice and mix it with the boiled apples, white wine, egg yolks, orange, and citron.

  3. Line a mold with pastry and beat the egg whites until frothy.

  4. Fold the egg whites into the rice mixture and fill the mold.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake until golden brown.

  2. For the sauce, simmer wine, sugar, egg yolks, and butter until thickened.

  3. Serve the pudding upside down with the 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.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  3. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  4. Apple + white winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Apple + winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole rice
Cooked until tender, it forms the body and bulk of the pudding.
Egg yolks
Enrich the filling and help it set firm when baked.
Egg whites
Beaten until frothy, they lighten the filling and help it rise.
Apples
Add moisture and fruity sweetness to the filling.
Milk
Softens the rice as it cooks and adds richness to the filling.

The step that matters

Folding the egg whites into the rice mixture. Folding gently keeps the air beaten into the egg whites. Stirring them in hard knocks that air out, so the pudding bakes denser and rises less.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, lemon, white wine, egg, orange, wine):

  1. Grapefits about as well
  2. Blackberryfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, lemon, white wine, egg, orange, wine. 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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