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Golden Pudding

A steamed pudding made with bread crumbs, suet, marmalade, eggs, sugar, ginger, lemon juice, and baking powder.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Golden Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, beat together the marmalade and eggs with a spoon.

  2. Add the sugar, ginger, lemon juice, and suet, and mix well.

  3. Stir in the bread crumbs thoroughly.

  4. Add the baking powder and pour the mixture into a greased pudding mold.

Steam and serve

  1. Cover and steam for two hours.

  2. Serve with lemon or marmalade sauce.

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. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Sugar + gingertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together14,054 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  4. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  5. Egg + lemontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together44,316 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

Sugar and ginger barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 14,054 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Provide the bulk and body that hold the pudding together after steaming.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help give the pudding its set structure.
Suet
Adds fat that gives the pudding a rich, moist texture.
Marmalade
Adds sweetness and citrus flavour, and moisture to the batter.
Baking powder
Releases gas during cooking so the pudding rises and stays light.

The step that matters

Add the baking powder and pour into the mold. Baking powder starts releasing gas once it meets moisture and heat, so the batter should go into the greased mold promptly and be steamed without delay to rise evenly and stay light.

Swap the ginger

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

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