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Huckleberry Pudding

A boiled pudding made with suet, flour, and huckleberries, topped with syrup and served with a huckleberry sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Syrup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 173 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Huckleberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the crust

  1. In a bowl, combine the shredded suet, sifted flour, and salt.

  2. Add very cold water to form a paste.

Fill and boil

  1. Roll the crust out thin and place huckleberries on top.

  2. Bring the edges of the crust together, lapping and pinching to seal the berries inside.

  3. Tie the pudding in a cloth and boil until cooked through.

Serve

  1. Remove from the cloth and place on a platter.

  2. Cut a square hole in the top and pour in syrup.

  3. Replace the piece of crust and serve.

Make the sauce

  1. For the sauce, combine a little sugar, flour, butter, and water with crushed huckleberries and bring to a boil.

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. Syrup + saucetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together173 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Syrup + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Beef suet
Provides fat that makes the crust tender and flaky as it cooks.
Flour
Forms the structure of the crust that holds the berries inside.
Huckleberries
Supply the fruit filling and flavor of the pudding.
Syrup
Sweetens the pudding as it is poured into the cooked crust.

The step that matters

Sealing the berries inside the crust. If the edges are not lapped and pinched firmly, the crust can open during boiling and let the berry juice escape, leaving the filling dry or the pudding falling apart.

“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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