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To Make Potato Pudding

A baked potato custard with butter, lemon, sugar, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,230 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

To Make Potato Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the potatoes and pass them through a sieve.

  2. Beat the butter until creamy.

Make the filling

  1. Add the grated lemon rind, lemon juice, pounded sugar, and eggs to the butter.

  2. Beat the mixture together for 10 minutes.

Bake

  1. Place a thin crust on the bottom and rim of your dish.

  2. Pour the mixture into the dish.

  3. Bake for 1 hour.

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. Potato + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  2. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide body and bulk, giving the pudding a soft, moist, dense texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing a tender, smooth texture to the pudding.
Eggs
Set during baking to give the pudding structure and hold it together.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness and gives the pudding its tangy flavour.
Lump sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps create a smooth, light mixture when beaten.

The step that matters

Beating the mixture for 10 minutes. Long beating incorporates air and fully blends the butter, sugar, eggs and potato, so the baked pudding turns out smooth and evenly textured rather than dense or separated.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

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