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Pudding, Marlborough

A butter and sugar custard baked in puff pastry with jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Pudding, Marlborough

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the butter until creamy.

  2. Stir in the powdered sugar.

  3. Whisk the eggs and add them to the mixture.

Assemble and bake

  1. Line a dish with puff pastry.

  2. Spread a layer of jam over the pastry.

  3. Pour the mixture into the dish.

  4. Bake the pudding for about 1 hour.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 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

Butter
Adds richness and a tender, creamy texture to the filling.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the filling and dissolves smoothly into the butter.
Eggs
Set during baking to give the filling its body and structure.
Puff pastry
Forms the flaky base that holds the filling and jam.
Jam
Adds fruity sweetness and acidity beneath the filling.

“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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