Skip to main content
Dessert

Bakewell Pudding

A baked pudding made with butter, sugar, grated bread, egg yolks, lemon essence, raspberry preserve, and topped with blanched almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Bakewell Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Beat the butter until creamy.

  2. Add the sugar, grated bread, egg yolks, and essence of lemon. Mix well.

Assemble and bake

  1. Line a dish with the pie crust.

  2. Spread a layer of raspberry preserve about 1 inch thick in the crust.

  3. Pour the pudding mixture over the preserve.

  4. Bake until set.

  5. Stick blanched almonds on top.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Lemon + raspberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,109 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

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

  4. Bread + raspberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together70 recipes

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

  5. Butter + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 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

Butter
Adds richness and a tender, creamy body to the filling.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly as it bakes.
Grated bread
Bulks out the filling and gives it a soft, cake-like texture.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help the filling set as it bakes.
Raspberry preserve
Provides a tart-sweet fruit layer that contrasts with the filling.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Egg yolks set as they heat, so underbaking leaves the filling runny while overbaking can make it dry and grainy. Look for a filling that is firm at the edges and only slightly wobbly in the centre.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Raspberrythe original
  4. Orangefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, bread, egg, lemon. 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.

You might also like

Lemon CakeLemon Cake228 recipesBread PuddingBread Pudding153 recipesRaspberry JamRaspberry Jam150 recipesLemon IceLemon Ice147 recipes