Name: Orange Pudding
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons sugar; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup milk; 2 tablespoons butter; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 3 oranges; 3 eggs; 62 desserts; 1 orange

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Orange Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Miss Clara Spellman.
Slice 3 oranges; sweeten with 3 tablespoons sugar; place in bottom of well-buttered pudding dish. Mix 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons butter, yolks of 3 eggs, 2^ cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Pour over the oranges and put into the oven to bake. When done, invert into another dish. Cover
1 62 Desserts.
with meringue made of whites of 3 eggs and 3 tablespoons sugar. Brown in oven. Serve with cooked sauce, flavored with juice of 1 orange.
See Sauce No. 10.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

895Calories

29 gProtein

26 gFat

135 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49

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

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,696 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

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