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Baked Gooseberry Pudding

A baked pudding made from stewed gooseberries, eggs, butter, bread crumbs, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pulp

  1. Stew the green gooseberries in a saucepan of water until they become pulpy.

  2. Pass the pulp through a coarse sieve into a bowl.

Mix and bake

  1. Add the eggs, butter, bread crumbs, and sugar to the pulp and mix well.

  2. Place a crust around the edge of your baking dish.

  3. Pour the mixture into the dish and bake.

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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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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the pulp and help the pudding set as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a softer, tender texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the tart gooseberry pulp and adds body.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help give the pudding its body.
Green gooseberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and acidity, and the pulp that forms the base.

The step that matters

Pour the mixture into the dish and bake. The pudding is a loose egg-based mixture, so it needs to bake until the eggs set. Underbaked it stays runny in the centre, and overbaked it can curdle and turn watery. Watching for a firm edge and a slight wobble in the centre helps.

“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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