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Strawberry Pudding a LA Wellington

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Sauce and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Strawberry Pudding a LA Wellington

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare as you would for Apricot Pudding a la Wellington.

  2. Substitute the apricot jam with firm strawberry jam.

  3. Serve with sauce and whipped cream on the side.

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. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Strawberry jam + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes
  3. Strawberry jam + saucetop 41% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together11 recipes

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

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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