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Baked Gooseberry Pudding

A baked pudding made with gooseberries, butter, eggs, breadcrumbs or biscuits, and sugar, baked in 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 bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pulp

  1. Place gooseberries in a jar and set over a pan of water on the fire until they pulp.

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

Make the filling

  1. Stir in the butter, beaten and strained eggs, and bread crumbs or crushed biscuits.

  2. Sweeten to taste, then pour the mixture into a pie crust.

Bake

  1. Bake until set and golden brown.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  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. 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

Eggs
Beaten eggs bind the filling and help it set firm when baked.
Gooseberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and tartness, and their pulp gives the filling its body.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender texture to the filling.
Bread crumbs or naples biscuits
Soak up the fruit juice and thicken the filling so it holds together.

The step that matters

Bake until set and golden brown. Eggs set as they heat, so the filling must be baked until firm in the centre. Pulling it too early leaves it runny, while over-baking can make the eggs weep and become rubbery.

“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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