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Orange Marmalade Pudding

A custard pudding made with bread crumbs, eggs, milk, butter, sugar, and orange marmalade.

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 ↓

Orange Marmalade Pudding

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 the custard base

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Rub the butter and sugar together in a bowl.

  3. Add the beaten egg yolks, milk, and bread crumbs to the mixture.

  4. Beat the egg whites until frothy and fold them into the mixture.

Layer and bake

  1. Layer some of the mixture in a well-buttered mold.

  2. Spread a layer of marmalade on top.

  3. Add more of the mixture and repeat until the mold is full.

  4. Finish with the custard mixture on top.

  5. Bake for about 1 hour.

Serve

  1. Turn out of the mold onto a dish and serve cold with sweetened cream or custard.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg whites lift the mixture and set it into a light, tender pudding when baked.
Bread crumbs
Bulk the pudding and absorb the milk so the mixture holds its shape.
Milk or cream
Adds moisture and richness, helping the custard stay soft after baking.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the tartness of the marmalade.
Orange marmalade
Adds bright citrus flavour and sweetness, with pectin giving a jammy layer.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Stirring beaten whites in vigorously knocks out the air they hold, so the pudding bakes up dense rather than light. Fold gently with a spatula, in a few additions, to keep the volume.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, sugar, milk, 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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