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Elegant Bread Pudding

A sweet bread pudding made with sliced bread, preserves, milk, and eggs, baked in a water bath.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk 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 ↓

Elegant Bread Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the bread into thin slices.

  2. Layer preserves and bread slices in a pudding mold until nearly full.

  3. Mix the eggs into the warm milk and pour over the bread layers.

  4. Cover the mold with a piece of linen.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the mold in a saucepan with boiling water and boil for 20 minutes.

  2. Serve with pudding sauce.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  3. 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

Light white bread
Forms the body of the pudding, soaking up the custard as it cooks.
Preserves
Add sweetness and fruity flavor between the bread layers.
Milk
Moistens the bread and forms the custard base with the eggs.
Eggs
Bind the milk and bread into a set, custard-like pudding when heated.

“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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