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Delicious Blueberry Dessert

A chilled dessert of stewed blueberries layered over buttered bread, served with sweetened cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Delicious Blueberry Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Make the fruit

  1. Stew the blueberries and sweeten to taste.

Layer

  1. Layer the stewed fruit over buttered bread slices in a dish, making alternate layers.

  2. Leave a thick layer of fruit on top.

Chill and serve

  1. Place a plate on top and cool in the refrigerator.

  2. 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.

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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 + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Bread + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Blueberries
Supply the fruit flavor and juices that moisten and flavor the bread layers.
Bread
Provides the structure that soaks up the stewed fruit juices as the pudding chills.
Sugar
Sweetens the stewed fruit and balances its natural tartness.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the bread slices before layering.

The step that matters

Chill under a plate. Pressing the layers down with a plate while chilling keeps the bread in contact with the fruit juices, so it softens evenly and the pudding holds together when served.

“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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