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Almond Pudding, Baked

A baked pudding made from almonds, eggs, milk, butter, lemon, sugar, sherry, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Almond Pudding, Baked

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. Blanch and pound the almonds to a smooth paste with a little water.

  2. Mix the almond paste with melted butter.

  3. Beat the eggs, grate the lemon rind, and strain the juice.

Make the batter

  1. Add the eggs, lemon juice, milk, sugar, and sherry to the almond mixture and stir well.

Bake

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

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 to 45 minutes.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Almonds
Provide the main body and nutty flavour of the pudding as a fine paste.
Eggs
Set as the pudding bakes, giving it structure and a custard-like body.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a softer, more tender texture.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the batter so it bakes into a soft, creamy set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown lightly in the oven.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and lend body, helping the pudding hold its texture.

The step that matters

Baking the pudding. Eggs set as they heat, so baking too long or too hot can curdle and toughen the custard. Watch for a set centre with a slight wobble and remove it promptly.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, sherry, egg, butter, milk, bread, 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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