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Cottage Potatoe Plum Pudding

A sweet pudding made from mashed potatoes, milk, eggs, sugar, and raisins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,611 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Cottage Potatoe Plum 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 batter

  1. Boil, peel, and mash the potatoes.

  2. Beat the mashed potatoes into a smooth batter with the milk and beaten eggs.

  3. Add the moist sugar and raisins, mixing well.

Bake

  1. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for the required time.

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. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Milk + raisintop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

  4. Potato + raisintop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy bulk that gives the pudding its body and soft, moist crumb.
Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set firm as it bakes.
Milk
Loosens the mashed potato into a pourable batter and adds moisture.
Moist sugar
Adds sweetness and a molasses-like depth of flavour.
Raisins
Add chewy pockets of concentrated sweetness throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Beating the mashed potatoes smooth. Lumps of potato left in the batter will not blend into the eggs and milk and can bake unevenly. Mashing thoroughly and beating until smooth gives an even, uniform texture once the eggs set in the oven.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, egg, sugar, raisin):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, egg, sugar, raisin. 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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