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To Make Prince of Wales Pudding

A steamed suet pudding made with apple, bread crumbs, currants, candied fruit, sugar, nutmeg and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

To Make Prince of Wales Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Butter and flour a basin.

  2. Cut the blanched almonds lengthwise.

Make and steam the pudding

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped apple, bread crumbs, suet, currants, candy lemon, orange, citron, pounded sugar, grated nutmeg, and eggs until well combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into the basin.

  3. Cover the top with buttered paper.

  4. Place a cloth over the paper.

  5. Steam for 2 hours, ensuring the paper is sufficient for steaming.

Serve

  1. Garnish the pudding with the blanched almonds when serving.

  2. Serve with wine sauce.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  3. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  4. Orange + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Apple + curranttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help the pudding set as it steams.
Bread crumbs
Add body and soak up moisture so the pudding holds its shape.
Suet
Adds fat and richness, keeping the steamed pudding moist and tender.
Currants
Provide chewy pockets of fruit sweetness throughout the pudding.
Apple
Adds moisture and mild tartness that balances the rich fats and sugar.

The step that matters

Steam for 2 hours, ensuring the paper is sufficient for steaming.. Steam must not get into the pudding, and the basin must be sealed well enough to keep water out. Gentle, continuous steaming cooks the egg and crumb mixture evenly without making it soggy or dense.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Cranberryfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, bread, lemon, orange, sugar, nutmeg, 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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