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Another Way to Make Potatoe Pudding

A sweet potato pudding made with boiled potatoes, butter, sugar, almonds, rose water, eggs, and nutmeg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,115 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Potatoe Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Boil the potatoes until soft, then peel and pound them in a mortar.

Make the pudding

  1. Mix the pounded potatoes with melted butter, pounded sugar, pounded almonds, rose water, beaten eggs, and grated nutmeg.

  2. Boil the mixture in a cloth or buttered basin.

Serve

  1. Serve with a sweet sauce made of wine, sugar, butter, and grated nutmeg.

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. Almond + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Potato + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

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

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

  5. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 body once pounded smooth.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set when boiled, giving the pudding its firm structure.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender, smooth texture.
Pounded loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the pudding brown lightly at the surface.
Pounded sweet almonds
Add nutty flavour and body to the mixture.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture in a cloth or buttered basin. Starch and egg proteins set as the pudding heats, so the mixture must be sealed and held at a steady boil. A cloth or buttered basin keeps the pudding's shape and prevents sticking.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, almond, rose, egg, nutmeg. 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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