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Golden Pudding

A steamed pudding made with bread crumbs, suet, sugar, marmalade, eggs, salt, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Golden Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Mix

  1. Beat the eggs well.

  2. Combine the bread crumbs, minced suet, sugar, marmalade, beaten eggs, salt, and milk.

  3. Pour the mixture into a greased mold.

Steam

  1. Steam for 2 hours.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Beef + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Bread + beeftop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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

Eggs
Bind the mixture and set into a firm, sliceable pudding as they cook.
Bread crumbs
Provide body and soak up liquid, giving the pudding structure and a soft crumb.
Beef suet
Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and tender as it steams.
Marmalade
Adds sweetness, citrus flavour and moisture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the savoury suet and salt.
Milk
Adds moisture that softens the crumbs and lets the eggs set into a custardy texture.

The step that matters

Steam gently for the full 2 hours. Eggs set through gentle, moist heat. Steaming surrounds the mold with steady warmth, so the pudding cooks evenly without drying out. Too little time leaves the centre loose, while overly aggressive heat can make the texture coarse or dense.

“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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