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Peas Pudding

A boiled pudding made from peas, potatoes, butter, salt, and pepper, served with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,016 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Peas Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peas

  1. Boil the peas in a loosely tied cloth for 2 to 3 hours until soft.

  2. Pulp the peas through a sieve.

Make the pudding

  1. Boil the potatoes until soft, then pass them through a sieve.

  2. Mix the peas and potatoes together with salt, pepper, and butter.

  3. Tie the mixture firmly in a cloth and boil for an additional 30 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve the pudding with melted butter.

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.

Explore the science

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. Peas + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,016 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Peas + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Peas + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Peas
Form the main body of the pudding, and when pulped they set into a thick, spoonable mass.
Potatoes
Add starch and softness, helping the pudding hold together and feel smooth.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the pudding a smoother, more rounded flavour.

The step that matters

Tie the mixture firmly in a cloth. A firm wrap keeps the pulped mixture compact while it boils, so it sets into a dense pudding rather than falling apart in the water.

Swap the peas

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

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peanutfits about as well
  3. Chickpeafits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, butter, potato. 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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