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Milton Pudding

A bread pudding made with cinnamon, chocolate, and milk, topped with a creamy sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Milton Pudding

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 ↓

Milton Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a slow oven”. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the pudding

  1. Mix the bread, milk, cinnamon, and chocolate in a bowl.

  2. Soak the mixture for 1-2 hours.

  3. Beat the eggs.

  4. Combine the beaten eggs with the soaked mixture.

  5. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish.

Bake the pudding

  1. Bake at 300°F (150°C) for 40 minutes.

Make the sauce

  1. Combine 1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons sugar, and ½ cup water in a saucepan.

  2. Cook the sauce until creamy.

  3. Stir in the butter, vanilla, and a pinch of salt.

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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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. 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. Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Cinnamon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

Cinnamon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Forms the body of the pudding, soaking up the milk and eggs.
Eggs
Set when baked, binding the bread and milk into a firm custard.
Milk
Provides moisture and softens the bread, and sets with the eggs into custard.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the sauce turn smooth and creamy.
Grated chocolate
Adds rich flavour and colour throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Soak the mixture for 1-2 hours. The bread must fully absorb the milk so the pudding bakes evenly and sets into a uniform texture rather than staying dry or soggy in patches.

“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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