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Apple Pudding Sauce

A baked apple pudding with a pastry crust and almond filling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,673 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Apple Pudding Sauce

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Quarter the apples and boil them in a syrup made of sugar and water until tender.

  2. Make a dough by mixing butter, flour, egg yolk, almonds, and sugar.

  3. Roll out the dough thinly and use it to line an angel food tin.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the lined tin with the cooked apples and cover with the remaining pastry.

  2. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 30 to 45 minutes until the dough is well done.

  3. Let cool for an hour before turning out onto a serving dish.

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. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  4. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Apples
Provide the fruit filling that softens and turns tender when simmered in syrup.
Butter
Adds fat that makes the dough rich and tender.
Flour
Forms the dough's structure, holding the pastry together during baking.
Egg yolk
Enriches the dough, adding richness and helping bind it.
Almonds
Add nutty flavour and texture to the dough.

The step that matters

Baking the dough until well done. The pastry must bake through so it sets and holds the filling; underbaked dough stays doughy and soggy. Browning and structure develop as the dough's starches and proteins set in the oven's heat.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, flour, egg, almond, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, flour, egg, almond, milk. 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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