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German Pudding

A steamed bread pudding made with stewed apples, bread crumbs, milk, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon, and almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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German Pudding

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

German Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the bread crumbs in milk.

  2. Cream the butter and sugar together.

  3. Beat the egg yolks and whites separately.

Make and cook

  1. Mix the stewed apples, soaked bread crumbs, creamed butter and sugar, beaten egg yolks, lemon juice, lemon peel, and chopped almonds together.

  2. Fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

  3. Steam the mixture until set.

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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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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the pudding and, once whites are folded in, add lightness and a tender structure.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the milk and form the body of the pudding.
Stewed apples
Provide moisture, sweetness and the main apple flavour.
Butter
Adds richness and a soft, tender crumb.
Milk
Softens the bread crumbs and adds moisture to the batter.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet apple flavour.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Egg whites hold air that gives the pudding its lightness. Stirring vigorously knocks that air out, leaving a dense result after steaming.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Applethe original

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