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Grape-pubding

A baked dessert of grapes, sugar, and stale bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and bread work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 131 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Grape-pubding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare and bake

  1. Butter an earthen baking dish.

  2. Layer ripe grapes, sugar, and stale bread crumbs alternately in the dish, finishing with a layer of crumbs.

  3. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 30 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve hot, sprinkled with powdered sugar.

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. Grape + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

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

  2. Grape + sugartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,490 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + breadtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,638 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

Ripe grapes
Provide the fruit and moisture that soften and flavour the pudding as it bakes.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the tart flavour of the grapes.
Stale bread crumbs
Absorb juice and give the pudding body so it holds together rather than turning watery.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, bread):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Datesfits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, bread. 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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