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Gooseberry Pudding, Baked

A baked pudding made with gooseberries, bread crumbs, eggs, butter, short or flaky paste, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Gooseberry Pudding, Baked

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Prepare the gooseberries by sweetening them and mixing with the warm bread crumbs.

  2. Let the mixture cool, then beat in the eggs.

Bake and serve

  1. Line a shallow dish with the paste and pour in the mixture until nearly full.

  2. Bake until set and serve hot or cold.

  3. For serving cold, add cream or custard for enhancement.

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.

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. Bread + buttertop 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

Gooseberries
Provide the tart fruit flavour and the bulk of the filling.
Eggs
Set when baked, binding the filling into a sliceable custard-like texture.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the fruit juices and give the filling body so it does not run.
Short or flaky paste
Forms the base that holds the filling and bakes into a crisp shell.
Sugar
Sweetens the tart gooseberries and balances their acidity.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before adding the eggs. Eggs begin to set when heated. Beating them into a hot mixture can partly cook them into lumps and stop them blending evenly, which affects the final set and texture.

“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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