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Chocolate Bread Pudding

A pudding made by boiling milk with bread crumbs and chocolate, then adding eggs and sweetening.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Chocolate Bread Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Combine the milk, bread crumbs, and grated chocolate in a pot.

  2. Bring the mixture to a boil, then allow it to cool.

  3. Add the whole egg, egg yolks, salt, and sugar to the mixture. Stir the mixture well.

Bake and finish

  1. Bake as desired.

  2. Use the two egg whites to make meringue after baking.

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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Milk + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,128 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

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

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 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

Bread crumbs
Soak up the milk and form the soft, custard-like body of the pudding.
Grated chocolate
Gives the pudding its chocolate flavor and adds richness.
Egg
Sets during baking to give the pudding structure and a tender texture.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help the pudding set smoothly with fat and emulsifiers.
Milk
Provides the liquid that the bread crumbs absorb and that eggs set into custard.

The step that matters

Bring the mixture to a boil, then allow it to cool. Boiling the milk with bread crumbs and chocolate thickens the base, and the mixture must cool before the eggs go in so they do not scramble and turn grainy.

“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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