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Windsor Apple Pudding

A steamed apple pudding made with bread crumbs, apple pulp, lemon, egg, butter, nutmeg, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,318 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Windsor Apple Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA fairly hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a basin, combine bread crumbs and apple pulp.

  2. Add lemon juice, grated lemon rind, beaten egg, nutmeg, butter, and sugar.

  3. Stir all ingredients thoroughly together.

Steam

  1. Transfer the mixture into a buttered mold and cover with a cloth.

  2. Steam for 1.5 to 2 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. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Apple + nutmegtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,790 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Form the body of the pudding and absorb the apple pulp and liquids.
Apple pulp
Adds moisture and apple flavor so the pudding stays soft as it steams.
Egg
Binds the mixture so it holds its shape when turned out.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for a tender texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the acidity of the lemon and apple.

The step that matters

Steaming for the full time. Steaming gently sets the egg and crumb structure through. Stopping early leaves the centre wet and loose, so check that the pudding is firm before turning it out.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, lemon, egg, nutmeg, butter, sugar. 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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