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Hanover Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and allspice work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 443 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Hanover Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel, quarter, and core the apples.

  2. Boil the apples and red cabbage until tender.

  3. Press out the water from the cabbage and finely chop it.

  4. Mix the apples with the cabbage, adding sugar and allspice to taste.

  5. Roll out the pie crust thinly and spread the mixture on it.

  6. Fold the crust over the mixture, tie it in a cloth, and boil for 1.5 hours.

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. Cabbage + allspicetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together443 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Apple + cabbagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together235 recipes

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

  3. Apple + allspicetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together998 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  4. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Sugar + allspicetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,938 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar, allspice):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, sugar, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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