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Bread Pudding Argentina

A custard-like dessert made with bread, milk, eggs, sugar, and vanilla, baked until set.

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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Bread Pudding Argentina

Ovenmoderate oven
Time50–60 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the caramel

  1. Combine sugar and water in a saucepan and stir constantly over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.

  2. Increase the heat to high and allow the mixture to boil without stirring until it turns a nice golden color.

  3. Pour the caramel into a cake pan, coating the pan while being careful not to burn your hands from splattering.

Soak and mix the bread

  1. Remove the crusts from the bread and cut it into small cubes; you should have about 4 cups of crumb.

  2. Pour the bread cubes over the milk and allow them to sit for 30–60 minutes.

  3. With your hands, squish the bread until it becomes a single mash; do not use a mixer or food processor.

  4. Beat the eggs with sugar and vanilla until light, then stir the mixture into the bread mash to combine.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the bread mixture into the prepared pan.

  2. Place the cake tin in a baking dish filled with water and bake in a moderate oven for 50–60 minutes until set.

  3. Cool the pudding, refrigerate overnight, then remove from the mold and serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

743Calories
27 gProtein
14 gFat
121 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  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. Bread + vanillatop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together497 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the custard and set the pudding into a sliceable structure as they cook.
Bread
Forms the body of the pudding and soaks up the custard so it holds together.
Milk
Provides the liquid that softens the bread and forms the custard with the eggs.
Sugar
Makes the caramel topping and sweetens the custard.

The step that matters

Cooking the caramel to golden. Sugar darkens quickly once it passes golden, so pulling it too late gives a bitter, burnt flavour. Stirring only until dissolved, then boiling without stirring, keeps the syrup from crystallising.

“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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