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Geeman Potato Pudding

A baked potato pudding with sugar, butter, cream, eggs, and orange flower water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Geeman Potato Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the potatoes

  1. Boil, peel, and thoroughly mash the potatoes.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the mashed potatoes with salt and lemon peel.

Make the custard

  1. Heat the mixture while stirring, then add sugar, butter, and cream.

  2. Once hot, remove from heat and let cool slightly.

  3. Stir in orange flower water, whole eggs, and egg yolks.

Bake and serve

  1. Line a mold with bread crumbs and butter.

  2. Pour the potato mixture into the mold.

  3. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) until set.

  4. Serve hot.

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

Potatoes
Form the bulk of the pudding, giving it a soft, mashed body once mashed smooth.
Butter
Adds richness and a silky mouthfeel to the mashed potato base.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, making the pudding softer and smoother.
Whole eggs
Bind the mixture and set it into a firm, sliceable pudding when baked.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help the pudding set to a smooth, custard-like texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the crust brown lightly in the oven.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool slightly before adding the eggs. Eggs added to very hot mixture can scramble or cook unevenly, leaving lumps instead of a smooth set custard. Cooling briefly keeps the texture even.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Sweet potatofits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

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