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White Roll Pudding Another Way

A baked pudding made from grated white rolls, cream, almonds or pistachios, sugar, eggs, cherry‑water, and buttered mold, served with a cherry‑water sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and cherry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 672 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

White Roll Pudding Another Way

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cut off the crusts of the rolls and grate them.

  2. Mix the crumbs with the cream, almonds or pistachio nuts, and sugar.

  3. Add the yolks of the eggs and mix well, then fold in the whipped egg whites and cherry-water.

  4. Butter a mold and sprinkle with bread-crumbs.

Bake and serve

  1. Garnish with puff-paste, pour the batter into the mold, and bake at 400°F (200°C) for about 45 minutes.

  2. Serve with a sauce made of sugar and water mixed with cherry-water or 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.

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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. Almond + cherrytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together672 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  5. Almond + buttertop 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

White halfpenny rolls
Grated crumbs form the body of the pudding, soaking up cream to set a soft, tender structure.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, softening the crumbs into a custard-like batter.
Eggs
Yolks enrich and bind the batter, while whipped whites lighten it and help it rise and set.
Almonds or pistachio nuts
Add flavour and a slightly oily richness that adds body to the batter.
Sugar
Sweetens the batter and helps the crust brown lightly in the oven.

The step that matters

Fold in the whipped egg whites. Whites must be folded gently so the air they hold is kept. Overmixing deflates the foam, leaving a denser pudding that rises less during baking.

Swap the cherry

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

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

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