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Strawberry Pudding

A chilled pudding made from stale bread soaked in a warm strawberry and sugar mixture, served with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut or break the stale bread into very fine pieces, removing the crusts.

  2. Mash the fresh strawberries with the sugar in a bowl.

  3. Heat the strawberry mixture on the stove just until warmed through.

Assemble and chill

  1. Pour the warm strawberry mixture over the bread until thoroughly moistened.

  2. Set the pudding away in the refrigerator or a cool place until cold.

Serve

  1. Serve chilled with whipped cream.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Bread + coffeetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together267 recipes

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

  5. Bread + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Soaks up the strawberry juice and gives the pudding its body and soft, spoonable texture.
Fresh strawberries
Provide the main flavour, colour and liquid that moistens the bread.
Sugar
Sweetens the strawberries and helps draw out their juice.

“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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