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Preserved Fruit Pudding

A pudding made by rolling preserved fruit jam in a buttered flour crust and boiling it.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Preserved Fruit Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the crust

  1. Make a crust by rolling out the flour and butter mixture until thin.

  2. Spread the raspberry jam evenly over the crust.

Wrap and boil

  1. Roll the crust up tightly and wrap it in a cloth, tying it securely at both ends.

  2. Boil the wrapped pudding in water for the appropriate time based on its size.

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. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + flourtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,262 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the structure of the crust that holds the filling during boiling.
Butter
Adds fat that gives the crust tenderness and richness.
Raspberry jam
Provides sweetness, moisture and fruit flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Roll and tie the pudding tightly. A tight roll with a secure tie keeps the filling enclosed and stops water from seeping into the pudding while it boils. A loose wrap can let the jam leak out or the pudding come apart.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter. 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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