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Mango Cardamom Bread Pudding

"Silky smooth bread pudding made with mangos and a healthy dash of cardamom. Passed to my mother from her girlhood friend."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and cardamom share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 43 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Lightly grease an 8-inch square baking dish with a little of the butter.

  2. Spread the torn bread pieces evenly in the dish and scatter the diced mango over the top.

  3. In a bowl, whisk the beaten eggs, sugar, milk, vanilla extract and ground cardamom until smooth.

  4. Pour the custard slowly over the bread and mango, pressing gently so the bread soaks it up. Let stand for 10 minutes.

  5. Melt the remaining butter and drizzle it over the top of the pudding.

  6. Set the baking dish in a larger pan and pour in enough boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the dish.

  7. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until the top is golden and the center reaches 160°F (71°C) on an instant-read thermometer.

  8. Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes before serving warm.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mango + cardamomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together43 recipes

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

  2. Milk + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together19,175 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

  4. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + vanillatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together35,031 recipes

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

Sugar and vanilla share little aroma chemistry, yet 35,031 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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