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Egg Pudding

A baked pudding made with bread crumbs, raisins, apples, eggs, sugar, butter, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Egg Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Combine bread crumbs, raisins, chopped apples, eggs, sugar, butter, and spices in a bowl, then mix well until all ingredients are combined.

  2. Pour the mixture into a mold.

  3. Boil the mold until the pudding is set.

Serve

  1. Serve with hard sauce.

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

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

  2. Raisin + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,920 recipes

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

  3. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Bread + appletop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

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

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 bind it into a firm, sliceable custard-like mass.
Bread crumbs
Provide the bulk and body that the pudding is built around, soaking up moisture.
Apples
Add moisture and a fruity, tart flavour that balances the sugar.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps give the pudding a tender texture.
Raisins
Add chewy pockets of concentrated sweetness throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Boil the mold until the pudding is set. Eggs set when heated gently and steadily; if the water boils too hard or the pudding is heated too long, the texture can turn rubbery or porous. Check for firmness rather than relying only on time.

Swap the apple

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

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

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