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Frozen Apple Pudding

A chilled dessert of stewed apples mixed with fruit preserves, raisins, nuts, and liqueurs, finished with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Frozen Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Stew the apples until tender.

  2. Mix the apples with the orange rind, apricot jam, and sugar.

  3. Mash the mixture through a coarse sieve.

  4. Freeze the mixture.

  5. Simmer the raisins in a little sugar and water for a few minutes. Drain the raisins.

Freeze and finish

  1. Add the drained raisins, shredded almonds, cherries, and citron to the apples when they are partly frozen.

  2. Add the curaçao and maraschino when the mixture is quite frozen.

  3. When the crank turns very hard, add the whipped cream. Turn a little longer.

  4. Fill a mold as described in General Directions for Freezing Ice-Creams.

  5. When ready, turn out of the mold and serve with a sauce of whipped 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.

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. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Apricot + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Orange + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Apricot + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Stewed and mashed into a smooth, tender base that forms the body of the frozen pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers its freezing point so it stays softer when frozen.
Cream
Whipped in at the end to add richness and a lighter, airy texture.
Raisins
Plumped in syrup, they add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness to the frozen mixture.
Apricot jam
Adds fruit flavor and sweetness to the apple base.

The step that matters

Adding the whipped cream late in freezing. Cream added while the mixture is only partly frozen can be overworked or fail to incorporate evenly; adding it when the mixture is very thick keeps it airy and well distributed.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, apricot, sugar, orange, almond, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, apricot, sugar, orange, almond, cream. 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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