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Breadfruit Pudding—‘papaiee.’

A baked dessert made from breadfruit pulp, milk, coconut juice, salt, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Breadfruit and coconut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Breadfruit Pudding—‘papaiee.’

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the mixture

  1. Scrape out the pulp from the ripe breadfruit.

  2. Mix the breadfruit pulp with milk and pressed coconut juice.

  3. Add salt and sugar, and mix well.

Bake

  1. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 1 to 1.5 hours.

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.

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.

  1. Breadfruit + coconuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Milk + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

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

  3. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  4. Coconut + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,742 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Breadfruit + milktop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Ripe breadfruit
Its starchy pulp forms the body of the pudding and sets as it bakes.
Milk
Adds moisture and a soft, tender texture to the pudding.
Pressed coconut juice
Adds moisture and coconut flavour, with some richness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the surface brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Baking the pudding. Starch from the breadfruit sets as the pudding heats, and with no egg to help it hold, the pudding can dry out and become crumbly if it bakes too long. Check it near the shorter end of the stated time.

Swap the breadfruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, coconut, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Bananafits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Breadfruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, coconut, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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