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Raspberry Pudding

A baked dessert made with butter, eggs, raspberry jam, breadcrumbs, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Raspberry Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy.

  2. Add the eggs and breadcrumbs, mixing well.

  3. Butter a pudding mold and coat it with brown breadcrumbs.

Assemble and bake

  1. Layer the mixture and jam alternately in the mold until full.

  2. Bake for 1 hour in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C).

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Raspberry + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together70 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Creams with sugar to create a light, rich, tender texture and carries flavor.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help set the pudding as it bakes.
Breadcrumbs (in the method)
Provide body and structure, soaking up moisture to hold the pudding together.
Raspberry jam
Adds sweetness, fruit flavor, and moisture that bakes into the layers.
Sugar
Sweetens the batter and helps create a creamy, aerated base with the butter.

The step that matters

Layering the mixture and jam in the mold. Filling the mold until full with alternating layers matters because uneven packing leaves air pockets or dense spots, so the pudding may bake unevenly and hold its shape poorly when turned out.

Swap the raspberry

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

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

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