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Peach Pudding

A baked peach dessert with a sour cream and flour batter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peach Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Butter a pudding dish.

  3. Slice the peaches into it. Sweeten to taste.

Make and bake

  1. In a bowl, mix the sour cream, egg, baking soda, salt, and enough flour to create a stiff batter.

  2. Pour the batter over the peaches.

  3. Bake until golden brown.

  4. Serve hot with cream.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Peach + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Peaches
Provide the fruit base and moisture that cooks down beneath the batter.
Sour cream
Adds moisture and tang, keeping the batter tender while it bakes.
Egg
Helps bind the batter and gives it structure as it sets.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidity of the sour cream to lift the batter as it bakes.
All-purpose flour
Forms the stiff batter's structure, which sets as the pudding bakes.

The step that matters

Mixing the stiff batter. Too much flour makes the batter dense and heavy, while too little leaves it runny and unable to hold its shape. Mixing only until combined keeps the topping tender.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, cream, egg, flour):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cream, egg, flour. 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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