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Bakewell Pudding

A sweet pastry tart with candied peel, raspberry jam, almond mixture, and eggs baked to a golden crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 552 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Bakewell Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the base

  1. Line a dish with good pastry.

  2. Strew the candied peel over the pastry.

  3. Spread the raspberry jam on top of the peel.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar until creamy.

  2. Pound the almonds with a little rose water or plain water.

  3. Add the almond mixture and eggs to the butter and sugar.

  4. Mix everything together very carefully.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into the prepared dish.

  2. Bake for 30 minutes in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C).

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. Raspberry + almondtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together552 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Creams with the sugar to give the filling a light, rich texture.
Egg yolks
Enrich the filling and help it set firm as it bakes.
Egg whites
Add structure and lightness to the filling as it bakes.
Almonds
Add body and nutty flavour to the filling and help it stay moist.
Raspberry jam
Adds sweetness and fruity flavour in a layer beneath the filling.
Castor sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps create a creamy texture with the butter.

The step that matters

Mix everything together very carefully.. Overmixing a batter that contains eggs can incorporate too much air and make the filling tough or uneven as it sets. Gentle mixing keeps the texture smooth and the layers distinct.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, egg, almond. 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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