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Dried-peach Pudding, Boiled

A boiled pudding made with dried peaches, beef suet, flour, salt, and cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and peach work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 787 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Dried-peach Pudding, Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Chop the dried peaches and beef suet.

  2. Mix the chopped peaches, suet, flour, and salt in a bowl.

  3. Add enough cold water to form a stiff batter that can be easily stirred.

  4. Tie the mixture in a floured pudding bag, leaving room for it to swell.

Boil and serve

  1. Boil a large pot of water and drop the pudding into it.

  2. Boil continuously for about 4 hours, or steam for the same time.

  3. Serve hot with wine or lemon sauce.

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. Flour + peachtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together787 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Peach + beeftop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Flour + beeftop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,677 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and beef barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,677 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the bulk of the stiff batter that holds the pudding together.
Beef suet
Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and rich as it cooks.
Dried peaches
Provide concentrated fruit flavor and sweetness in the pudding.

The step that matters

Keep the pudding boiling continuously. Water that stops boiling drops in temperature and the pudding can turn heavy and unevenly cooked. A steady boil or steam over the full time lets the starch set and the suet melt through the batter.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, beef):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, beef. 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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