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Raspberry Pudding

A steamed dessert made with butter, bread crumbs, eggs, and raspberry jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grease a mold and dust it with brown bread crumbs or ratafia crumbs.

  2. Melt the butter, strain it, and stir in the bread crumbs.

Make the pudding

  1. Beat in the egg yolks and raspberry jam thoroughly.

  2. Fold in the egg whites beaten stiffly and pour the mixture into the mold.

Steam and serve

  1. Steam gently for 1.5 to 2 hours.

  2. Turn out and serve with a good sauce.

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

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

  3. Bread + raspberrytop 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
Adds richness and moisture, and helps the crumbs bind into a tender pudding.
Bread crumbs
Provide the body of the pudding, soaking up butter and egg to hold its shape.
Eggs
Yolks enrich and bind the mixture; whipped whites lighten it and help it rise.
Raspberry jam
Adds sweetness, fruity flavor, and moisture to the pudding.

The step that matters

Fold in the egg whites. Beaten whites trap air that lightens the pudding. Stirring them in vigorously knocks out that air, leaving a dense result, so fold gently to keep the texture light.

Swap the raspberry

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

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

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