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Marlborough Pudding

A baked apple pudding with wine, butter, sugar, eggs, cream, spices, and citrus rind.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Marlborough Pudding

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Marlborough 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 and bake the pudding

  1. In a large bowl, combine the stewed apples, wine, melted butter, sugar, beaten eggs, cream, spices, and grated rind.

  2. Pour the mixture into a rich pastry crust in a deep dish.

  3. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve warm or cold, with or without the pastry.

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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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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Apple + winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Wine + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Wine + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the filling and help it set into a custard-like texture as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and tender texture to the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly at the edges.
Stewed apples
Provide the main apple flavour and moisture for the filling.
Cream
Adds richness and a smoother, softer texture to the custard filling.

The step that matters

Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Eggs set as they bake, so the filling must be cooked through to firm up. Underbaking leaves it runny in the centre, while overbaking can make it dry or curdled.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Orangefits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wine, butter, sugar, egg, cream, lemon. 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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