Name: Marmalade Pudding
Ingredients: 10 oz orange marmalade; Bread crumbs

Why it works: Orange and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,084 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Marmalade Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

10 oz orange marmalade
Bread crumbs

Directions

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

Assemble

Layer bread crumbs and the orange marmalade mixture in a mould until full.
Finish with a layer of bread crumbs on top.

Bake and serve

Bake in a moderate oven (350°F / 175°C) for 1 hour.
Turn out of the mould and serve.

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.

Orange + breadtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,084 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Orange marmalade: Provides sweetness and bright citrus flavour that permeates the bread as it bakes.
Bread crumbs: Form the bulk of the pudding and soak up the marmalade to set into a soft, moist body.

“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.