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A George Pudding

A pudding made from rice, apples, wine, and citrus, baked in a pastry-lined mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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

Make the rice filling

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

  2. Drain the rice.

  3. Mix the drained rice with boiled apples, white wine, egg yolks, orange, citron, and sugar.

Assemble and bake

  1. Line a mold with pastry.

  2. Beat the egg whites until frothy.

  3. Combine the frothy egg whites with the rice mixture.

  4. Fill the mold with the combined mixture.

  5. Bake until golden brown.

  6. Serve upside down.

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. 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. Lemon + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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 bulk and body of the pudding.
Egg yolks
Enrich the filling and help it set into a custard-like texture when baked.
Egg whites
Beaten until frothy, they add lightness and help the filling rise and set.
Apples
Provide moisture, fruity flavour and a tender texture within the pudding.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to make it creamy and adds richness to the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and aids browning on the baked surface.

The step that matters

Beat the egg whites until frothy. Whites that are under-beaten give a dense pudding, while over-beaten ones collapse and lose their lift. Folding them gently into the rice mixture keeps the air that helps the pudding rise and set lightly.

Swap the apple

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

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

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