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Almond Pudding

A boiled pudding made from lemon cheesecake mixture, bread crumbs, cream, almonds, eggs, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Almond Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in cream.

  2. Blend the lemon cheesecake mixture with the soaked crumbs, almonds, eggs, and sugar.

Boil and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a cloth and boil for about 1 hour.

  2. Cut ribbon dumplings and arrange them around the pudding on a serving dish.

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.

Explore the science

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 + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  5. Bread + almondtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together858 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Soak up the cream and give the pudding its body.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness to the mixture.
Eggs
Set when cooked, holding the pudding together.
Sweet almonds
Add nutty flavour and a slightly firm texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the flavours.

The step that matters

Boil the pudding in the cloth. Keep the water at a steady simmer rather than a hard rolling boil. Gentle heat lets the eggs set evenly, while vigorous boiling can make the pudding tough and let water seep into the cloth.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream, almond, egg, 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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