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Another Way to Make Apple Pudding

A baked apple dessert with a custard-like filling made from stewed apples, eggs, cream, and puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Another Way to Make Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the apple base

  1. Stew the apples with sugar, cinnamon, and lemon peel until soft.

  2. Pass the mixture through a fine sieve.

Make the custard

  1. Beat the egg yolks and whites with the sweet cream and ground rice.

  2. Stir the mixture over heat until it boils.

  3. Combine the apple puree with the egg mixture.

Bake

  1. Line a baking dish with puff pastry and pour in the mixture.

  2. Bake until set.

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. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Cinnamon + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Apples
Provide the bulk and flavour of the pudding once stewed and pureed.
Egg yolks and whites
Set the custard as they cook, giving the pudding its structure.
Sweet cream
Adds richness and a smooth, tender texture to the custard.
Ground rice
Thickens the custard slightly and helps it hold together when set.
Sugar
Sweetens the apples and balances their tartness.

The step that matters

Stirring the egg mixture over heat until it boils. Eggs thicken as proteins set with heat, but overheating or curdling can make the custard grainy. Stir constantly and remove from heat as soon as it thickens, so the custard stays smooth.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, cinnamon, lemon, egg, cream, rice. 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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