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Potato or Carrot Pudding

A baked pudding made with boiled potatoes or carrots, almonds, eggs, butter, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Potato or Carrot Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Pound the boiled potatoes or carrots in a mortar.

  2. Blanch the almonds and pound them coarsely with the orange-flower water.

  3. In a bowl, mix the pounded vegetables, almonds, egg whites, egg yolks, salt, nutmeg, and brown sugar.

  4. Line a dish with puff pastry.

Bake

  1. Just before baking, stir in the melted butter.

  2. Bake in a preheated oven at 400 °F (200 °C) for 20 minutes.

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. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Orange + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes or carrots
Provide the starchy, moist bulk that gives the pudding its body.
Egg yolks
Enrich the filling and help it set firm as it bakes.
Egg whites
Add lift and structure so the filling bakes lighter.
Melted butter
Adds richness and a silky texture to the filling.
Sweet almonds
Contribute body, nutty flavour and a fine texture to the filling.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and a caramel note while helping browning in the oven.

The step that matters

Stir in the melted butter just before baking. Melted butter can separate or firm up if it sits in the mixture. Adding it at the last moment keeps the filling smooth and evenly textured as it goes into the oven.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, orange, egg, nutmeg, sugar, 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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