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Windsor Pudding

A steamed apple pudding with rice, sugar, lemon, and folded egg whites, served with custard sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Windsor Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice and apples

  1. Boil the rice in milk until tender.

  2. Drain the rice well.

  3. Bake or stew the apples until soft.

  4. Pass the apples through a fine sieve.

Make the mixture

  1. Stir in the sugar, rice, lemon rind, and lemon juice.

  2. Whisk the egg whites until stiff.

  3. Gently fold the egg whites into the mixture.

Steam and serve

  1. Turn the mixture into a buttered basin.

  2. Steam gently for about 40 minutes.

  3. Serve with custard sauce made from the egg yolks.

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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Apple + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Form the pudding's main body and moisture, and supply sweetness and flavour.
Carolina rice
Thickens the pulp and gives the pudding a soft, set structure.
Egg whites
Whisked into foam, they lighten the pudding and help it rise as it steams.
Castor sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the tartness of the apples and lemon.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the apple flavour.
Lemon rind
Adds fragrant citrus aroma without extra liquid.

The step that matters

Gently fold the egg whites into the mixture. Whisked egg whites trap air that gives the pudding its lightness. Stirring or beating them in vigorously deflates the foam, so the pudding steams up dense instead of light.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, rice, lemon, egg, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, rice, lemon, egg, milk. 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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