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Potato Pudding

A baked dish of mashed potatoes mixed with butter, sugar, eggs, salt, and lemon rind.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,230 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Potato Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the pudding

  1. Boil the potatoes until very dry, then mash them perfectly smooth while hot.

  2. Mix in the butter, sugar, eggs, salt, and lemon rind until well combined.

  3. Pour the mixture into a well-buttered dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for nearly 45 minutes.

  2. Serve with fine sugar sifted over it, or spread with red currant jelly or any other preserve.

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

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

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

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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 soft, starchy body once mashed smooth.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, moist crumb.
Eggs
Set during baking to give the pudding its structure.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps browning on the surface.

The step that matters

Mash the potatoes until very dry and perfectly smooth. Potatoes holding extra water make the pudding wet and loose, and lumps prevent an even, smooth texture. Mashing while hot helps the starch blend evenly before the eggs and butter are added.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Potatothe original

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