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Noodle Pudding

A sweet pudding made from egg, flour, dried fruit, lemon peel, suet, and boiled noodle strips.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and raisin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Noodle Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the noodles

  1. Break the eggs into a bowl and mix with enough flour to form a paste and a pinch of salt.

  2. Roll out the paste to about ¼ inch thick and cut into strips 1 inch wide.

  3. Boil the strips in water for a few minutes, then drain in a sieve.

Assemble and cook

  1. In a basin, combine the noodle strips with currants, raisins, lemon peel, orange and lemon peel, and melted suet.

  2. Mix well with 6 beaten eggs.

  3. Grease and sugar a mold, then pour in the mixture.

  4. Boil for 2 hours.

Serve

  1. Serve with wine or brandy 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.

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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. Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  3. Currant + raisintop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  4. Raisin + orangetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,684 recipes

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

  5. Raisin + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,742 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the noodles and fruit together and set the pudding as it cooks.
Flour
Forms the dough that is rolled into noodle strips for structure.
Suet
Adds richness and moisture to the pudding.
Currants
Add chewy sweetness and body throughout the pudding.
Raisins
Add chewy sweetness and body throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Grease and sugar a mold, then pour in the mixture.. Greasing and sugaring the mold helps the pudding release cleanly after boiling, and the mixture should be well combined first so the eggs set evenly rather than in pockets.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, flour, raisin, lemon, orange):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, flour, raisin, lemon, orange. 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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