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Cheesecake Pudding

A baked pudding made from mashed potatoes, egg yolks, milk, sugar, lemon peel, and sultanas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cheesecake Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the pudding

  1. Cook the potatoes until tender, then pass them through a sieve.

  2. In a bowl, combine the potato puree with the egg yolks, lemon peel, sugar, and sultanas. Mix well.

  3. Transfer the mixture to a buttered baking dish.

Bake

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) until the top is light brown and the pudding is firm.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  3. Potato + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

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

  5. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the bulk and a smooth, starchy body that gives the pudding its soft, creamy texture.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help the pudding set firm as it bakes.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown during baking.
Sultanas
Add chewy pockets of sweetness and moisture throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Bake until the pudding is firm. Egg yolks set as they heat, so underbaking leaves the pudding loose in the centre, while overbaking can make it dry and rubbery. Look for a light brown top and a firm centre.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits about as well
  2. Sweet potatofits about as well
  3. Potatothe original
  4. Leekfits about as well

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