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Lemon-potato Pudding

A baked pudding made with boiled potatoes, lemon peel, sugar, butter, milk, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk 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 ↓

Lemon-potato 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

  1. Boil the lemon peel until tender.

  2. Beat the lemon peel with the sugar until well combined.

  3. Boil the potatoes until tender, then peel them.

Mix

  1. Mix the potatoes, lemon mixture, butter, a little milk, and eggs together until smooth.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) until set.

  2. Serve with an acid sauce for best flavor.

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. Butter + milktop 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. Lemon + milktop 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 soft, smooth body to the pudding.
Lemon peel
Adds bright citrus aroma and sharp flavor to the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the tartness of the lemon.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender, moist texture.
Eggs
Set as they bake, giving the pudding its structure.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Egg proteins set as they heat, so underbaking leaves the pudding loose while overbaking makes it curdled, rubbery, and weepy.

Swap the potato

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

  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 lemon, sugar, butter, milk, egg. 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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