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Pease Pudding

A boiled pudding made from soaked peas, pork, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,589 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Pease Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peas

  1. Soak the peas in water for 24 hours.

  2. Drain the water and place the peas in a cloth, tying it securely but leaving room for expansion.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the cloth with the peas and pork for 2 hours.

  2. Add salt and pepper just before serving.

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. Peas + porktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,589 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Peas + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pepper + porktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Dried peas
Form the body of the pudding, breaking down into a thick, spoonable purée as they cook.
Pork
Adds savory flavor to the peas as it simmers alongside them.

The step that matters

Tying the cloth loosely. Dried peas swell considerably as they absorb water and cook. A cloth tied too tightly can burst or restrict expansion, so leaving room lets the peas swell safely.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, pork):

  1. Black-eyed peafits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Soybeanfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, pork. 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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