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Apple Pudding for Six or Seven Persons

A boiled apple pudding made with flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon, suet, and minced apples.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and apple 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 ↓

Apple Pudding for Six or Seven Persons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix the flour, sugar, salt, and cinnamon.

  2. Add the minced suet and minced apples, and mix well.

  3. Let the mixture stand for about 1 hour to allow the juices to wet the flour.

Cook

  1. Dust a cloth with flour, place the mixture in the center, and tie it up securely.

  2. Boil the pudding in plenty of water for 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. Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Sugar + appletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Flour
Forms the structure that holds the pudding together as it cooks.
Suet
Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and rich as it cooks.
Apples
Provide moisture and tart fruit flavor throughout the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the tartness of the apples.

The step that matters

Tying the cloth securely. If the cloth is loose, water can seep in during the long boil and make the pudding soggy and waterlogged. A snug, well-floured cloth keeps the pudding's shape and texture intact.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, cinnamon):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, 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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