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Potato Pudding

A baked potato custard with eggs, sugar, lemon peel, almonds, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,655 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Potato Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Rub the boiled potatoes until smooth.

Make the batter

  1. Add the egg yolks, granulated sugar, lemon peel, and chopped almonds; mix well.

  2. In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites until foamy and fold into the potato mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a well-greased pan and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

  2. Bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) until done.

  3. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

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. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Potato + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together337 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Potato + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together434 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the bulk and a soft, moist body for the pudding.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help bind the mixture as it sets.
Egg whites
Whipped to foam, they lighten the texture and help the pudding rise.
Almonds
Add nutty flavour and a slightly crunchy texture.
Granulated sugar
Adds sweetness and helps tenderise the custard-like texture.

The step that matters

Fold the whipped egg whites gently. Stirring or deflating the foam removes the air that lightens the pudding, leaving it dense instead of light and airy.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, lemon, almond, bread):

  1. Arrowrootfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, lemon, almond, bread. 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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