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Orange Pudding

A steamed custard made with milk, bread crumbs, egg yolks, sugar, butter, orange juice, and rind.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Orange Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Heat the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Mix in the bread crumbs.

  3. Beat the egg yolks and add them to the mixture along with sugar, melted butter, orange juice, and grated rind.

  4. Steam the mixture for 45 minutes.

Top and brown

  1. Beat the egg whites until stiff, then flavor and brown them in the oven.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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 hot milk to give the pudding a soft, body-filled texture.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and help it set into a tender, custard-like texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the sharpness of the orange.
Orange juice
Adds acidity and bright citrus flavor to the pudding.
Milk
Provides the liquid base that the crumbs soften in and the eggs set within.

The step that matters

Beat the egg whites until stiff. Egg whites hold air only when beaten to stiff peaks; under-beaten or greasy whites will collapse and fail to give the topping its light, browned finish.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

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