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Jubilee Pudding

A cake-like pudding made with flour, suet, sugar, strawberry jam, baking soda, and milk, baked slowly and served with clarified sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Jubilee Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slow oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Mix the flour, suet, and baking soda together.

  2. Add the strawberry jam and enough milk to achieve a cake-like consistency.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a basin greased with fat and coated with coarse brown sugar.

  2. Cover with a plate and bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) for about 2 hours.

  3. Serve with clarified sugar poured over the pudding.

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. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Strawberry jam + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + strawberry jamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together291 recipes

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the bulk structure that holds the pudding together as it sets.
Suet
Adds richness and a moist, tender texture as it melts during baking.
Baking soda
Releases gas that helps the pudding rise and become light.
Strawberry jam
Adds sweetness, fruit flavour and moisture to the batter.

The step that matters

Adding milk to reach a cake-like consistency. Too little milk leaves a stiff, dry pudding, while too much makes it loose and heavy. Flour needs enough liquid to hydrate and set properly during the long, slow bake.

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, milk. 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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