Name: Baked Ob Boiled Marrow Pudding
Ingredients: 1/2 pint of bread crumbs; 1-1/2 pint of milk; 4 eggs; 6 persons; nutmeg

Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Baked Ob Boiled Marrow Pudding

6 persons

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

Make the milk boiling, pour it hot onto the bread crumbs, and let them remain covered for about ½ hour.
Shred the marrow, beat up the eggs, and mix these with the bread crumbs.
Add the remaining ingredients (raisins or currants, sugar, nutmeg) and beat the mixture well.

Cook and serve

Either put it into a buttered mould and boil it for 2½ hours, or put it into a pie‑dish edged with puff‑paste, and bake for rather more than ¾ hour.
Before serving, sift a little pounded sugar over, after being turned out of the mould or basin.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

694Calories

27 gProtein

15 gFat

109 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12

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

By Isabella Beeton. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Bread + nutmegtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,997 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Milk + nutmegtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,685 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Egg + nutmegtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together24,744 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Egg and nutmeg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 24,744 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 mixture and help it set as it cooks.
Bread crumbs: Soak up the hot milk to form the body of the pudding.
Milk: Softens the crumbs and provides the moist custard-like base.
Marrow (in the method): Adds richness and fat, giving the pudding its savoury character.