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Blackberry Pudding

A pudding made by stewing blackberries, lining a dish with stale bread, dusting with sugar, pouring the berries, and topping with custard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,638 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Blackberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Stew the blackberries for 10 minutes.

  2. Line a pie dish with strips of stale bread and dust with white sugar.

  3. Pour the boiling blackberries over the bread.

Finish

  1. Once cooled, cover the pudding with a thin layer of custard.

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.

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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. Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,638 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Blackberries
Supply the main flavour, sweetness and juice that soaks into the bread.
Stale bread
Absorbs the berry juice and holds its shape as the pudding sets.
Custard
Adds a smooth, creamy, rich layer over the fruit.

The step that matters

Let the pudding cool before adding the custard. Custard is thickened by egg and can curdle or turn runny when it meets hot fruit. Cooling first keeps the topping smooth and thick.

“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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