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Baked Almond Pudding

A baked pudding made with eggs, cream, butter, ground almonds, brandy, and saccharine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Baked Almond 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. Dissolve the saccharine in water.

  2. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

Make the batter

  1. Add the cream and melted butter to the eggs.

  2. Lightly stir in the ground almonds.

  3. Add the brandy and dissolved saccharine.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a small pie dish.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 15 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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  3. Butter + brandytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Cream + brandytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,635 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the pudding into a firm, custard-like structure as their proteins coagulate when heated.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the pudding soft and tender.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, tender crumb.
Ground almonds
Add body and a nutty flavour, giving the pudding a slightly textured crumb.
Brandy
Adds aroma and a warm, spirited flavour.
Saccharine
Provides sweetness without adding sugar bulk.

The step that matters

Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 15 minutes. The eggs set the pudding as their proteins coagulate with heat. Too much heat or too long in the oven can make the eggs curdle and turn grainy or watery, so watch the pudding as it bakes.

“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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