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Peach Pudding

A baked peach pudding made with peaches, bread crumbs, milk, sugar, eggs, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peach Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA good oven

Ingredients

Directions

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

Prepare the filling

  1. Stew the peaches in a little water until soft.

  2. Soak the bread crumbs in the boiling milk.

  3. Stir in the butter, beaten eggs, and sugar.

  4. Add the cooled and mashed peaches. Mix well.

  5. Beat the mixture until light and fluffy.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour into a buttered pudding mold.

  2. Set the mold in a pan of boiling water and cover.

  3. Cook for one hour in a 350°F (175°C) oven.

  4. Turn out.

  5. Serve with sweetened 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Peach + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the pudding and give it a light, airy structure when beaten.
Bread crumbs
Soak up the hot milk to form the body of the pudding.
Peaches
Add moisture, fruity flavor, and soft texture to the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the flavor of the peaches.
Milk
Softens the bread crumbs and adds richness and moisture.

The step that matters

Cook in a water bath. Setting the mold in boiling water and covering it moderates the heat, so the eggs set gently into a smooth custard rather than curdling or drying out at the edges.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachthe original
  4. Applefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, sugar, egg, butter. 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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