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Green Gooseberry Pudding

A baked pudding made from green gooseberries, sugar, water, butter, bread crumbs, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Green Gooseberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the fruit base

  1. Boil the gooseberries, sugar, and water together for 10 to 12 minutes.

  2. Mash the fruit and stir in the butter.

Bake

  1. When nearly cold, add the bread crumbs and whisked eggs.

  2. Bake the pudding for 30 minutes.

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

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

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. 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 tart fruit flavour and most of the pudding's moist body.
Sugar
Sweetens the tart gooseberries and balances their acidity.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a softer, smoother texture.
Bread crumbs
Soak up liquid and give the pudding structure and body.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the pudding and give it a firm, custard-like structure.

The step that matters

Add the eggs when the mixture is nearly cold. Egg proteins begin to set at moderately high temperatures. Adding whisked eggs to a hot mixture can scramble them, leaving a grainy texture and uneven binding instead of a smooth, evenly set pudding.

“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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