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Black-puddings, a L’anglaise

Black pudding prepared a la angla, served with dry toast and mashed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 851 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Black-puddings, a L’anglaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the black pudding according to the English method, omitting nutmeg, bay-leaf, and thyme.

  2. Add boiled Emden grits or rice to the mixture.

  3. Score the black puddings all over to prevent bursting while broiling.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the puddings until cooked through.

  2. Serve with dry toast between each piece and fill the center of the dish with mashed potatoes to keep warm.

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. Rice + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together851 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Black pudding
Forms the main body of the dish, providing its rich, savoury flavour and firm texture.
Boiled emden grits or rice
Adds bulk and a soft, starchy texture that binds the pudding mixture.
Mashed potatoes
Serves as a warm, soft accompaniment that holds heat and balances the rich pudding.

The step that matters

Score the black puddings all over. Scoring lets steam escape as the pudding heats under the broiler. Without it, trapped steam can build pressure and cause the casings to burst.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, pepper. 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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