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Baked Almond Pudding

A baked pudding made from sweet and bitter almonds, wine, egg yolks, lemon peel, butter, cream, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Almond 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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Finely grind the sweet and bitter almonds with the wine.

Make and bake

  1. In a bowl, mix the ground almonds with egg yolks, lemon peel, butter, cream, and lemon juice until well combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into a baking dish lined with pastry.

  3. Bake for 30 minutes until set and golden.

Serve

  1. Serve warm.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  4. Wine + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Wine + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet almonds
Ground almonds give the pudding its body and nutty flavour.
Egg yolks
Yolks set when baked, giving the pudding a firm, custard-like structure.
Butter
Adds fat for a rich, tender texture.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, helping the pudding stay soft.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet, rich filling.

The step that matters

Baking until set. Egg yolks set as they heat, so the pudding should be baked until just firm. Overbaking makes the yolks curdle and turn grainy, while underbaking leaves the centre runny.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, wine, egg, butter, cream. 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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