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Carrot Pudding

A sweet pudding made from grated carrots, bread, spices, sugar, milk, eggs, and butter, baked until set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Carrot 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. Grate the raw carrots using a circular grater.

  2. In a bowl, combine the grated carrots, grated bread, nutmeg, cinnamon, sugar, salt, milk, eggs, and melted butter.

  3. Mix well until fully combined, adding cream as needed to achieve a smooth consistency.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish lined with puff pastry.

  2. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) until set.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Nutmeg + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Carrot + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together981 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Carrot + nutmegtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the pudding into a firm custard as they cook, and bind the mixture together.
Grated bread
Absorbs the milk and butter to give the pudding body and a soft crumb.
Raw carrots
Supply the main flavour and moisture, becoming tender as the pudding bakes.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the pudding brown lightly at the surface.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a tender texture and rich flavour.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Eggs thicken as they heat, so underbaking leaves the pudding runny in the centre while overbaking can make it dry and rubbery. Check that the centre is just firm before removing it from the oven.

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, nutmeg, cinnamon, sugar, milk, egg, butter):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, nutmeg, cinnamon, sugar, milk, egg, butter. 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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