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Baked Apple Pudding

A baked dessert made from boiled apples, butter, sugar, lemon, bread, and eggs, finished in puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Boil the apples with 2 tablespoons of water in a saucepan over low heat, turning occasionally until soft.

  2. Stir in the butter, sugar, lemon juice, and grated rind when the apples are nearly cold.

  3. Add the grated bread or biscuit and the beaten eggs, mixing well.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in puff pastry until golden brown.

  2. Serve with sifted sugar on top.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

  5. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 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
Cook down to a soft pulp that forms the body of the pudding.
Eggs
Bind the filling and set during baking to give it structure.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, tender texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown in the oven.
Grated bread or biscuit
Absorbs moisture and helps give the filling body.

The step that matters

Adding the butter, sugar, and lemon to the apples. Stirring these in while the apples are still hot can melt the butter and split the mixture; letting the apples cool nearly to room temperature keeps the fat evenly dispersed before the eggs are added.

Swap the apple

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

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

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