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Boiled Apple Pudding

A boiled apple pudding made by encasing sliced apples in a dough and steaming.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,140 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Boiled Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dough

  1. In a bowl, mix flour with ice water until a dough forms.

  2. Roll out the dough on a floured surface.

Assemble and steam

  1. Place the rolled dough into a basin.

  2. Add the sliced apples into the dough-lined basin.

  3. Fold the edges of the dough over the apples.

  4. Tie the dough tightly with string and steam until cooked through.

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 + appletop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,140 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour
Forms the dough's structure, giving the pudding a sturdy wrapper that holds the apples.
Ice water
Hydrates the flour to form a dough; cold water keeps the dough firm and easier to roll.
Apples
Provide the filling, softening as they steam and adding moisture and sweetness.

The step that matters

Tie the dough tightly with string and steam until cooked through. Steam must be trapped and the seal kept snug so the dough cooks through without water leaking in. A loose tie lets water soak the filling and leaves the wrapper soggy.

“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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