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Carrot Pudding

A steamed pudding made with grated carrots, eggs, milk, wheatmeal, syrup, and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 981 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Carrot Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scrape and grate the carrots.

  2. In a bowl, combine the eggs, milk, wheatmeal, syrup, and cinnamon to make a batter.

  3. Add the grated carrots to the batter and mix well.

Steam

  1. Pour the mixture into a buttered mold.

  2. Steam the pudding for 2 to 3 hours.

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. Carrot + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together981 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Syrup + cinnamontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together990 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  5. Carrot + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,259 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and help set the pudding as it steams.
Fine wheatmeal
Provides the starch and structure that hold the pudding together.
Milk
Adds moisture and helps the batter cook into a soft, tender texture.
Carrots
Add moisture, body and natural sweetness to the pudding.
Syrup
Adds sweetness and helps the pudding brown lightly.

The step that matters

Steaming the pudding. Steam must be kept steady and the mold sealed well enough that water does not seep in. Gentle, continuous heat lets the eggs and starch set evenly; too little heat leaves the centre wet, and water entering the mold makes the pudding soggy.

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, milk, syrup, cinnamon):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, syrup, cinnamon. 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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