Why it works: Bread and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,111 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
For Bread Pudding
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.
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Layer thin slices of buttered bread in a pudding dish.
Press raisins into the bread slices.
Pour the custard mixture over the bread and raisins.
Bake until set and golden.
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.
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Bread + raisintop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,111 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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