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Peach Pudding

A baked dessert of a batter with peaches, sugar, butter, and vanilla.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 558 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Peach 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 the batter

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

  2. In a bowl, mix sugar, milk, flour, eggs, butter, and baking powder until smooth.

Top and bake

  1. Spread the mixture in a broad, shallow pan or dish.

  2. Place halved and peeled peaches on top and sprinkle with additional sugar.

  3. Dot with a few pieces of butter and add a few drops of vanilla extract.

  4. Bake for about 30 minutes until golden and set.

Serve

  1. Serve warm with cream.

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. Peach + vanillatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together558 recipes

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

  2. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  5. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Provides the starch and structure that hold the pudding together as it bakes.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the batter and add structure and richness.
Butter
Adds fat for a tender texture and rich flavor.
Baking powder
Releases gas during baking so the pudding rises and becomes light.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top turn golden as it bakes.
Milk
Adds moisture and helps form a smooth, pourable batter.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Figfits about as well
  2. Raisinfits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, milk, flour, egg, butter, vanilla. 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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