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Potato Pudding

A baked dish of mashed potatoes, butter, eggs, milk, lemon, sugar, and almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Potato 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.

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Boil enough potatoes to make ½ pound when mashed.

  2. Mash the potatoes thoroughly with a fork.

Make the mixture

  1. Add the butter, eggs, milk, lemon juice, sugar, and pounded almonds.

  2. Mince the lemon peel very finely and mix all ingredients well.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a buttered pie dish.

  2. Bake for about 1 hour at 350°F (175°C).

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Potato + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the bulk and body of the pudding, giving it a soft, starchy texture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set it into a firm, sliceable pudding when heated.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender, smooth crumb.
Milk
Provides moisture that keeps the pudding soft and creamy as it bakes.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the surface brown lightly in the oven.
Lemon
Lemon juice adds acidity and the rind adds bright aroma.

The step that matters

Bake the pudding until just set. Eggs coagulate as they heat and firm the custardy mixture. Too much heat or too long in the oven makes the eggs curdle and turn grainy and watery.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Potatothe original

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