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Another Way to Make Almond Pudding

A custard-like pudding made with blanched almonds, wine, butter, sugar, eggs, cream, lemon peel, nutmeg, and bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Another Way to Make 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 the filling

  1. Pound the almonds with orange-flower or rose water until smooth.

  2. Add white wine, melted butter, powdered sugar, beaten eggs, cream, grated lemon peel, nutmeg, and grated bread, then mix all ingredients well.

Bake

  1. Line a baking dish with puff pastry and pour the mixture in.

  2. Bake at 350 °F (175 °C) until set.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

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

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

  4. White wine + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Blanched sweet almonds
Pounded into a smooth paste that forms the body and rich texture of the pudding.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the filling into a sliceable custard-like texture.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, giving the filling a soft, tender set.
Melted butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, tender crumb.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the filling and dissolves smoothly into the liquid ingredients.
Grated bread
Absorbs liquid and helps give the filling body so it holds its shape.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Baking only until the filling is set keeps the eggs and cream tender; overbaking causes the proteins to tighten, leading to a dry, curdled texture.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Orangethe original

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