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Fried Plum Pudding

Fried slices of cold plum pudding dusted with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Plum and butter work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 710 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Fried Plum Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut slices of cold plum pudding using a round cutter.

  2. Fry the slices in fresh butter until golden.

  3. Drain on paper towels.

  4. Dust with sugar.

  5. Serve on a napkin.

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. Plum + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together710 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Plum + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,313 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold plum pudding
Provides the main body and rich fruit flavour of the dish once sliced and fried.
Fresh butter
Fries the slices, adding fat that promotes golden browning and a rich aroma.
Sugar
Dusted on at the end for sweetness that contrasts with the fried surface.

Swap the plum

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar. 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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