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Snowdon Pudding

A steamed suet pudding with raisins, cherries, marmalade, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Snowdon Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Butter a pudding mold and decorate the bottom and sides with some halved cherries and raisins.

  2. In a bowl, combine the remaining cherries and raisins with the suet, bread crumbs, sugar, ground rice, lemon rind, cinnamon, and salt.

Make the batter

  1. Beat the eggs, then stir in the milk and marmalade until well mixed.

  2. Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and beat well.

Steam and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into the prepared mold, cover with buttered paper, and steam for 1.5 to 2 hours.

  2. Serve with fruit syrup or a suitable sweet 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.

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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Raisin + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm as it steams.
Bread crumbs
Provide body and soak up the liquid to give a soft, moist crumb.
Beef suet
Adds richness and fat that keeps the pudding moist and tender.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the batter so it blends evenly.
Apricot marmalade or jam
Adds sweetness and fruity flavour, with some moisture.

The step that matters

Steam for the full time. Steaming gently and for the full 1.5 to 2 hours cooks the eggs and starch through, so the pudding sets firm rather than wet or sunken in the centre.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, bread, sugar, raisin, rice, egg, milk):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, bread, sugar, raisin, rice, egg, 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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