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A German Pudding

A rich baked and boiled pudding of rice, apples, bread crumbs, eggs and fruit, served with a wine and cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

A German Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice and apple filling

  1. Boil the rice in milk with lemon peel until very tender, then drain.

  2. Mix the drained rice with apples boiled to a pulp, white wine, egg yolks, orange, citron, and sugar.

  3. Line a mold with pastry, beat the egg whites to a strong froth, and mix with the other ingredients.

  4. Fill the mold and bake until golden brown.

Make the bread pudding and boil it

  1. Pour boiling milk over bread crumbs and let soak.

  2. Beat the butter to a cream, then add the egg yolks and mix well.

  3. Drain the milk from the bread, then add the soaked bread, pounded sugar, and grated lemon peel.

  4. Whip the egg whites to a solid froth and fold in last.

  5. Butter a cloth, place the pudding inside, tie loosely, and boil in water for 1 hour.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. For the sauce, boil cream, raisin wine, and sugar rubbed on lemon peel.

  2. Add beaten egg yolks and lemon juice, mix well, and heat without boiling.

  3. Serve some sauce over the pudding and the rest in a sauceboat.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Apple + white winetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Lemon + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Cooked to a pulp, they add moisture and sweet, tender body to the filling.
Egg whites
Whipped to a froth, they lighten the pudding and help it rise and set.
Egg yolks
Enrich the custard-like texture and help bind the pudding and sauce.
Bread crumbs
Soaked in hot milk, they form the body of the pudding and absorb liquid.
Butter
Creamed with yolks, it adds richness and a tender crumb.
Rice
Cooked until very tender, it gives the filling a soft, starchy body.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Whites whipped to a stiff froth trap air that lightens the pudding; if they are deflated by vigorous stirring or left to sit, the pudding turns dense.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, lemon, white wine, egg, orange, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Peachfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, lemon, white wine, egg, orange, sugar. 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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