Name: Apple Pudding, Boiled
Ingredients: 12 oz flour; 6 oz suet; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2 lbs apples

Why it works: Flour and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,140 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Apple Pudding, Boiled

Ingredients

12 oz flour
6 oz suet
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 lbs apples

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

Mix the flour, suet, and baking powder in a bowl.
Peel, core, and slice the apples.

Make and boil the pudding

Fold the apples into the flour mixture until well combined.
Transfer the mixture into a pudding cloth or mold.
Boil in a pot of water for about 1.5 hours.

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.

Flour + appletop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,140 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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What each ingredient does

Flour: Provides the main structure that holds the pudding together as it cooks.
Suet: Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and tender while it cooks.
Baking powder: Releases gas as it reacts with moisture and heat, helping the pudding rise.
Apples: Add moisture and fruity flavour, with a gentle acidity that brightens the pudding.

“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.