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Orange Pudding

A baked pudding made with butter, sugar, eggs, apple, and orange rind, set in a paste-lined dish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,230 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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. Grate the rind of the Seville orange.

  2. Line the bottom and sides of a dish with paste.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until well combined.

  2. Add the beaten and strained eggs gradually while mixing.

  3. Scrape the raw apple and mix it into the mixture.

Bake

  1. Pour the orange mixture into the dish and place cross bars of paste on top.

  2. Bake for 30 minutes at 350°F (175°C).

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. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  2. Butter + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Butter + eggtop 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. Sugar + appletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

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

Sugar and apple barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 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

Fresh butter
Creams with the sugar to give the pudding a rich, tender body.
Eggs
Set during baking to give the pudding structure and a custard-like texture.
Lump sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps cream the butter to a light texture.
Raw apple
Adds moisture and fruity flavour to the filling.
Seville orange rind
Adds bright, aromatic citrus flavour and oils to the filling.

The step that matters

Adding the beaten eggs gradually. Adding eggs slowly while mixing lets the batter emulsify smoothly. Adding them all at once can cause the butter to separate and the texture to turn grainy or curdled.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, egg, 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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