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Baked Buddings

A baked rice pudding made with milk, butter, sugar, lemon zest, and fruit or marmalade.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 404 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Baked Buddings

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the rice mixture

  1. Cook the rice in the milk until tender.

  2. Stir in the butter, sugar, and lemon zest.

Bake and fill

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish, creating a crust about 1 inch thick.

  2. Fill with warmed preserved fruit or apple marmalade.

  3. Bake until golden brown, checking for color as the baking time may vary.

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. Plum + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  4. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked in milk until tender, it forms the body of the pudding.
Milk
Cooks the rice and gives the pudding its creamy, moist texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender texture and browning.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown during baking.
Preserved fruit or plum or peach compote
Adds sweetness and fruit flavor to the filling.
Apple marmalade
Adds sweet, tart fruit flavor and moisture to the filling.

The step that matters

Bake until golden brown. The baking time may vary, so color is a better guide than the clock. Browning comes from sugars and proteins reacting under dry oven heat, and removing the pudding too early leaves the crust pale and the centre loose.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, butter, sugar, plum, apple):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, butter, sugar, plum, apple. 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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