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Iced Apple Pudding

A frozen dessert made with apples, apricot jam, sugar, orange zest, cherries, raisins, almonds, Curaçao, Maraschino, whipped cream, and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Iced Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the apple base

  1. Peel, core, and quarter the apples.

  2. Simmer the apples over low heat until soft.

  3. Mix the softened apples with apricot jam and sugar, incorporating the orange zest.

Add the fruit and freeze

  1. Simmer the raisins in a little syrup for a few minutes.

  2. Add the raisins, diced almonds, and drained cherries to the freezing pot.

  3. Stir in the Curaçao and Maraschino.

  4. Freeze the mixture.

  5. Fold in the whipped cream.

  6. Freeze again.

Mould and serve

  1. Fill a mold with the mixture.

  2. Cover the mold.

  3. Place the mold in a container filled with ice and saltpetre.

  4. Let it freeze until ready to serve.

  5. Turn the pudding out onto a clean napkin.

  6. Accompany with iced whipped cream.

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. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Raisin + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,781 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Apricot + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Orange + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Apricot + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Cooked down to a soft pulp that forms the body of the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and softens the texture of the frozen mixture.
Whipped cream
Adds air and fat, making the frozen pudding lighter and creamier.
Apricot jam
Adds fruit sweetness and flavour to the apple base.
Raisins
Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness to the pudding.

The step that matters

Freeze again after folding in the whipped cream. Whipped cream adds air that can collapse or weep if the mixture softens, so refreezing firms it back into a smooth, sliceable texture.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, apricot, sugar, orange, almond, cream):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, apricot, sugar, orange, almond, cream. 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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