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Poulette Apple Pudding

A baked apple and rice pudding with candied citrus peels, eggs, and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Poulette Apple Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the ground rice as for rice pudding.

  2. Mix the rice with the finely chopped candied peels and the baked apples.

  3. Add sugar and ground cinnamon to taste.

  4. Stir in the egg yolks and then fold in the beaten egg whites.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a mold lined with puff pastry trimmings.

  2. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F / 175°C) for more than half an hour.

  3. Serve with 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.

Explore the science

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Orange + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Apple + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  4. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg whites
Whipped to foam, they lighten the pudding and help it rise and set in the oven.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and help it set into a custard-like texture as it bakes.
Ground rice
Forms the body of the pudding, thickening into a soft, tender base.
Baked apples
Add moisture and soft sweetness, giving the pudding its main fruit flavor.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites. Egg whites hold air only when beaten to a foam and folded in gently. Stirring them hard knocks out the air, so the pudding bakes denser and rises less.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, orange, lemon, sugar, cinnamon, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, orange, lemon, sugar, cinnamon, egg. 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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