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Queen of Puddings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,655 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Queen of Puddings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in milk.

  2. Cream the melted butter and sugar together.

  3. Add the beaten egg yolks, soaked bread crumbs, lemon juice, and rind; mix until smooth.

  4. Butter a mold well and add a layer of dry bread crumbs at the bottom.

  5. Place a layer of macaroons on top, wet with sherry wine, then cover with a layer of the mixture.

  6. Add slices of sponge cake spread thickly with jelly or jam, followed by another layer of macaroons.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Almond + sherrytop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together517 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together6,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, sugar, lemon, egg, sherry, wine):

  1. Peasabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Almondthe original
  3. Chestnutabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Cocoaabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, sugar, lemon, egg, sherry, wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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