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Baked Gooseberry Pudding

A baked pudding made from gooseberries, eggs, butter, sugar, biscuit crumbs, and a pie crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Why it works: Butter and biscuit are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,009 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the gooseberry juice

  1. Stew the gooseberries in a saucepan of water until they become pulpy.

  2. Press the pulp through a coarse sieve to obtain 1 pint of juice.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, beat the gooseberry juice with the egg yolks and strained egg whites.

  2. Add the butter and sweeten to taste.

  3. Mix in the crumbs from the roll or Naples biscuits for consistency.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a pie crust and bake 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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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. Butter + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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

Gooseberries
Provide the tart flavour and the pulp that forms the body of the pudding.
Eggs
Set when heated, giving the pudding its firm, custard-like structure.
Butter
Adds richness and a smoother, softer texture to the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens and balances the sharpness of the gooseberries.
Roll or naples biscuit crumbs
Absorb liquid and thicken the mixture to the right consistency.

The step that matters

Bake until just set. Egg proteins set with heat, but overbaking tightens them too far, so the custard turns grainy, curdles and weeps liquid. Stop baking as soon as the centre barely wobbles.

“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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