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New Bread Pudding

A steamed pudding made from bread, milk, eggs, nuts, and chocolate.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

New Bread Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Boil the bread in the milk and mash well.

  2. Add the egg yolks, chocolate, nuts, bread crumbs, and vanilla.

  3. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

  4. Grease a pudding mold and pour in the mixture.

Steam and serve

  1. Steam for one hour.

  2. Serve with whipped cream or plain 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.

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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Vanilla + chocolatetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Nuts + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together638 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Nuts + chocolatetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard and add structure and richness as they cook.
Bread
Soaks up the milk and forms the body of the pudding.
Milk
Hydrates the bread and keeps the pudding moist while it steams.
Chocolate
Adds deep flavor and color to the pudding.
Nuts
Add crunch and a toasty note against the soft crumb.

The step that matters

Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Fold gently so the whites keep their trapped air. That air lifts the pudding as it steams. Stirring hard deflates the whites and leaves a dense, heavy result.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, egg, vanilla, chocolate):

  1. Cocoafits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, egg, vanilla, chocolate. 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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