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Another Baked Apple Pudding

A baked dessert of stewed apples, sugar, butter, lemon, eggs, ginger syrup, and flour or biscuit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Another Baked Apple Pudding

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.

Make the filling

  1. In a saucepan, stew the apples with sugar and water until smooth and dry.

  2. Add butter, lemon rind, and lemon juice; stir until butter is melted.

  3. Quickly mix in the egg yolks in small portions, then beat the mixture well.

  4. If available, add syrup of preserved ginger and flour or crushed biscuit.

Bake

  1. Prepare a pastry border in a baking dish, pour in the pudding mixture.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 to 45 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. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,842 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Apple + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,424 recipes

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

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Break down into a smooth, thick base that gives the pudding its body and fruity flavor.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and set into a custard-like texture as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, tender mouthfeel to the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps the apples cook down to a smooth purée.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the apples and butter.

The step that matters

Mix in the egg yolks quickly and in small portions. Adding yolks all at once or to a hot mixture can cause them to scramble into lumps. Adding them gradually and beating well keeps the filling smooth so it sets evenly in the oven.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, lemon, egg, syrup, ginger, flour. 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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