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A George Pudding

A pudding made with rice, apples, wine, and eggs, baked in a pastry-lined mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

A George Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the rice in milk with lemon peel until tender.

  2. Drain the rice and mix with boiled apples, white wine, egg yolks, orange, and citron.

  3. Line a mold with pastry and beat the egg whites to stiff peaks.

Fill and bake

  1. Fold the egg whites into the mixture and fill the mold.

  2. Bake in a moderate oven until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Serve upside down with sauce made from wine, sugar, egg yolks, and butter simmered to thickness.

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

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

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Apple + white winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Lemon + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

What each ingredient does

Small rice
Its starch softens and thickens with milk, giving the pudding body and a tender crumb.
Egg yolks
They enrich the mixture and help it set into a custard-like texture as it bakes.
Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks, they trap air that lightens the pudding and helps it rise.
Apples
Cooked apples add moisture and soft fruit texture throughout the pudding.
White wine
It adds acidity and aroma that brighten the rich custard and fruit.

The step that matters

Fold the egg whites into the mixture. Stirring too hard deflates the whipped foam, which removes the air that lightens the pudding and leaves it dense rather than light.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, lemon, white wine, egg, orange):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Mangofits about as well
  3. Blackberryfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, lemon, white wine, egg, orange. 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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