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Yeast Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and fig work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 276 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Yeast Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Take the dough for dumplings and tie it in a cloth, leaving room for it to swell.

  2. Boil until done, about the same time as a suet pudding.

  3. Alternatively, cook in a deep steamer.

  4. For a variation, roll a small piece of dough, place a lump of butter and some brown sugar in the center, and close the dough around it to form a ball.

  5. Wrap this ball in a larger piece of dough to form the pudding.

  6. Serve by dividing with two forks.

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. Currant + figtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together276 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Butter + figtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + figtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,241 recipes

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

  4. Butter + curranttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  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

Swap the currant

The recipe marks currant as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, fig):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Apricotfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, fig. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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