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Gooseberry Pudding, Baked

A baked pudding made from gooseberries, breadcrumbs, sugar, butter, eggs, and pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Gooseberry Pudding, Baked

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 the fruit

  1. Remove the tops and tails from the gooseberries.

  2. Cook the gooseberries in a jar placed in a saucepan of boiling water until tender.

  3. Rub the cooked gooseberries through a fine sieve to make a puree.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the gooseberry puree with breadcrumbs, butter, sugar, and beaten eggs.

  2. Prepare a pie dish lined with pastry and pour in the mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 40 minutes or until set.

  2. Dredge with caster sugar and serve hot.

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 + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + eggtop 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

Gooseberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and, once pureed, the body of the filling.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb the fruit purée and help give the pudding a soft, cake-like body.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set it into a firm, sliceable custard-like texture when baked.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender texture to the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the tart gooseberries and balances their acidity.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Eggs set as they heat, so underbaking leaves the filling loose and watery, while overbaking makes it dry and rubbery. Check that the centre is just firm before removing it.

“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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