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Pineapple Pudding

A baked pineapple custard with sugar, butter, egg yolks, bread crumbs, and pineapple juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Pineapple Pudding

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pineapple Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

Make the pudding

  1. In a bowl, mix the butter, sugar, and egg yolks until well combined.

  2. Add the chopped pineapple and mix well.

  3. Stir in the bread crumbs and the juice from the pineapple.

  4. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake for 30 minutes.

Top and serve

  1. Use the egg whites to make a meringue and top the pudding before serving.

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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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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + pineappletop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,134 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pineapple + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together69 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

Egg yolks
Bind the mixture and add richness and a smooth, set custard-like texture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender crumb as the pudding bakes.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps it brown slightly in the oven.
Pineapple
Provides the main fruit flavour and moisture to the pudding.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the liquid and help give the pudding body and structure.

The step that matters

Baking the pudding until set. Egg yolks set as they heat, so the pudding must bake long enough to firm up. Underbaking leaves it runny, while overbaking can make it dry or curdled.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, egg, bread):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, butter, egg, bread. 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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