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A Eichek, Potato Pudding

A baked dish of mashed potatoes, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon rind, and brandy, garnished with candied orange or lemon rind.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange 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 ↓

A Eichek, Potato Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the pudding

  1. In a large bowl, beat together the mashed potatoes, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon rind, and salt until well combined.

  2. Add the brandy and mix thoroughly.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a thickly buttered dish and decorate with slices of candied orange or lemon rind.

  2. Bake for 40 minutes or until set and lightly golden.

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 + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Potato + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together537 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Brandy + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,706 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set into a firm, sliceable custard-like texture when baked.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the top brown lightly in the oven.
Mashed potatoes
Form the body of the pudding, giving it a soft, dense texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps the surface brown lightly during baking.
Brandy
Adds a warm, aromatic flavour to the pudding.

The step that matters

Bake until set and lightly golden. Eggs set as they heat, so underbaking leaves the pudding wet and loose in the centre, while overbaking makes it dry and rubbery. Checking for a firm centre and light golden colour shows it is done.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Arrowrootfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, egg, lemon, brandy, orange. 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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