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Sweet Orange Pudding

A baked pudding made with eggs, butter, orange juice and rind, sugar, white wine, and grated biscuit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,083 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Sweet Orange 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

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

Make the batter

  1. Beat together the eggs, butter, juice of four oranges, and the grated rind of one orange.

  2. Add the sugar, white wine, and enough grated biscuit to form a batter.

Bake

  1. Line a tart dish with puff paste, pour in the mixture, and bake for 30 minutes.

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. White wine + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Orange + white winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together730 recipes

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

  3. Orange + biscuittop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together371 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Butter + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard and bind the batter into a firm, sliceable filling.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender texture to the batter.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and balances the acidity of the orange juice.
Oranges
Provide the juice and rind that give the pudding its bright citrus flavour and aroma.
Grated biscuit
Absorbs liquid and gives the batter body so it holds together when baked.

The step that matters

Forming the batter. The grated biscuit must be added only until the mixture thickens into a batter. Too little leaves the filling runny, and too much makes it dry and dense once the eggs set in the oven.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, white wine, butter, biscuit):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, white wine, butter, biscuit. 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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