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Potato-flour Pudding

A custard-like pudding made with potato flour, milk, cream, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, lemon peel, and dried fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,950 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Potato-flour Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Boil the milk and cream with the cinnamon stick and lemon peel.

  2. Strain the mixture.

  3. Gradually stir in the potato flour until smooth.

  4. Add the well-beaten eggs.

  5. Sweeten with pounded loaf sugar.

Mold and boil

  1. Grease a tin mold.

  2. Line the mold with dried cherries or raisins.

  3. Pour the pudding mixture into the mold.

  4. Cover with buttered linen.

  5. Place the mold in a saucepan of boiling water.

  6. Boil for 1.5 hours, ensuring the water does not overflow.

Serve

  1. Serve with a sweet sauce.

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. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Potato flour
Thickens the milk and cream into a set, smooth pudding body.
Eggs
Set when heated, giving the pudding its firm, custard-like structure.
Milk and cream
Provide the liquid base and richness that gives the pudding its tender texture.
Loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the flavour of the eggs and dairy.
Cinnamon stick and lemon peel
Infuse the milk and cream with warm, aromatic flavour.

The step that matters

Boil for 1.5 hours, ensuring the water does not overflow. Gentle, sustained heat sets the egg and starch mixture evenly. Water that boils over or is too vigorous can make the pudding uneven or cause water to seep into the mold.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, cream, cinnamon, lemon, flour, egg, sugar):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cream, cinnamon, lemon, flour, egg, sugar. 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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