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Delicious Blueberry Dessert

A dessert of stewed blueberries layered with buttered bread slices, chilled and 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

Prepare the fruit

  1. Stew the blueberries and sweeten to taste.

Assemble and chill

  1. Pour the hot berries over buttered slices of bread with the crusts cut off.

  2. Make alternate layers of fruit and bread, leaving a thick layer of fruit on top.

  3. Place a plate on top and let it cool.

  4. Once cool, set it in the icebox.

  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.

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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

Bakers' bread
Forms the body of the pudding and soaks up the fruit juices as it sets.
Blueberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and moisture that soften the bread.
Butter
Coats the bread slices, adding richness and helping them brown lightly.
Sugar
Sweetens the stewed berries to taste.

The step that matters

Let it cool under the plate before chilling. Pressing the layers while the fruit cools lets the bread absorb the juices evenly and helps the pudding hold its shape when sliced. Chilling it while still hot can leave the bread soggy and loose.

“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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