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A Baked Apple Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

A Baked Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a stewpan, combine the chopped apples, moist sugar, currants, raisins, chopped almonds, lemon and orange peel, cinnamon, and ground cloves.

  2. Cook until the apples are soft.

  3. In a bowl, mix the chopped suet, flour, and salt. Add a little cold water to form a paste.

  4. Roll out the dough on a floured surface three times, then divide it into four pieces.

  5. Grease a pudding basin and sprinkle a little brown sugar and cinnamon at the bottom.

  6. Place one piece of rolled dough at the bottom of the basin, add a layer of the stewed fruit, and repeat the layers until all ingredients are used.

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. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Orange + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar, raisin, almond, lemon, orange, cinnamon):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Cranberryfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, sugar, raisin, almond, lemon, orange, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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