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Potato Pudding

A baked pudding made from mashed potatoes, butter, eggs, milk, lemon, sugar, and almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Potato 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. Boil enough potatoes to make ½ pound when mashed.

  2. Mash the potatoes thoroughly with a fork.

Make the batter

  1. Mince the lemon peel very finely.

  2. Add the butter, eggs, milk, lemon juice, sugar, and pounded almonds.

  3. Mix all ingredients well.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a buttered pie dish.

  2. Bake for about 1 hour at 350°F (175°C).

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

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

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Potato + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Butter + almondtop 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

Potatoes
Provide the starchy bulk that gives the pudding its soft, tender body.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender texture to the pudding.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the mixture into a pourable batter.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown lightly in the oven.
Lemon
Adds bright acidity and aroma from the juice and rind.

The step that matters

Mix all ingredients well. Thorough mixing spreads the eggs, fat and liquid evenly through the mashed potato, so the pudding bakes with a uniform texture rather than pockets of unmixed egg or butter.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg, milk, sugar, lemon, almond. 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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