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Cherry Bread Pudding

A baked bread pudding made with cracked wheat bread, cherries, raisins, yogurt, eggs, honey, and optional spices.

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Why it works: Wheat and bread match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 196 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

The recipe

Oven400°F
Timeabout 40 minutes

Ingredients

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

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Boil water.

  2. Pour water over cherries and raisins to soak.

  3. Set aside.

Make the custard

  1. Beat eggs and honey with a fork until well blended.

  2. Stir in yogurt and salt.

  3. Break up or crumble about 8 slices of cracked wheat bread and stir in.

  4. Add plumped cherries and raisins, draining the water first.

  5. Optionally mix spices with eggs before baking.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour mixture into a greased 5" x 7" pan or large pie tin.

  2. Bake at 400°F until aroma appears, about 40 minutes.

  3. Serve with a little cinnamon sprinkled on top.

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Explore the science

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. Wheat + breadtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together196 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Honey + yogurttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Honey + wheattop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together346 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Egg + breadtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,584 recipes

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

  5. Honey + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help set the custard as it bakes.
Cracked wheat bread
Soaks up the custard and forms the body of the pudding.
Nonfat plain yogurt
Adds moisture and tang, keeping the custard creamy as it bakes.
Dried pitted cherries
Add chewy texture and fruity sweetness throughout the pudding.
Dark honey
Adds sweetness and helps the custard brown lightly while baking.

Flavor stand-ins for the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, honey, yogurt, wheat, bread):

  1. Figbetter flavor fit
  2. Grapebetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, honey, yogurt, wheat, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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