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Lemon Suet Pudding

A suet pudding made with bread crumbs, suet, sugar, currants, lime zest, lime juice, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,032 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Lemon Suet Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA brisk oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a brisk oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

Mix and bake

  1. In a bowl, combine the bread crumbs, minced suet, sugar, currants, lime rind, lime juice, and beaten eggs.

  2. Pour the mixture into a thickly buttered pan.

  3. Bake for 1 hour until the pudding is a fine brown.

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. Bread + beeftop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Bread + curranttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Beef + limetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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

Bread crumbs
Provide the bulk and body that hold the pudding together.
Suet
Adds richness and fat, keeping the pudding moist as it bakes.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set it into a tender, cohesive pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown during baking.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet, rich mixture.

Swap the lime

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

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Red currantfits better
  4. Limethe original

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