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Bread-crumb Pudding

A pudding made by drying bread, turning it into crumbs, mixing with egg, sugar, milk, and boiling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Bread-crumb Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Dry the bread in a cool oven until perfectly dry.

  2. Roll the dried bread into fine crumbs.

Make the pudding

  1. Beat the egg with the powdered sugar and milk.

  2. Add the bread crumbs to the mixture and beat well for 10 minutes.

  3. Grease a basin with butter and pour in the mixture.

Cook

  1. Tie a cloth tightly over the basin and place it in boiling water.

  2. Boil for 30 minutes.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Dried and crumbed, it forms the body of the pudding and soaks up the custard.
Egg
Sets as it cooks, binding the crumbs into a soft, cohesive pudding.
Milk
Adds moisture and softens the crumbs, helping the mixture hold together while cooking.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the liquid mixture.

The step that matters

Tie the cloth tightly over the basin. A loose cloth lets boiling water seep into the basin and dilute the mixture. A snug seal keeps the pudding moist while it steams and sets.

“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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