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Apple or Pear Pudding a LA Maningo

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and arrowroot work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 62 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Apple or Pear Pudding a LA Maningo

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare as you would for Cherry Pudding a la Maningo, using the purée of apples or pears instead.

  2. Thicken boiling cream with arrowroot.

  3. Dust with 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. Apple + arrowroottop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + arrowroottop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,073 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 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

Swap the arrowroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Arrowrootthe original

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

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