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Rich Bread and Butter Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Rich Bread and Butter Pudding

Why it works: Brandy and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,057 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Rich Bread and Butter Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Simmer the milk with lemon rind or cinnamon for flavor, then strain it.

  2. Mix the strained milk with the cream and sweeten with sugar while hot.

  3. Stir in the beaten eggs and add a few grains of salt.

  4. Mix briskly while adding the brandy.

  5. In a thickly buttered dish, layer the bread and butter, currants, and candied peel.

  6. Pour the milk mixture over the layers.

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. Brandy + curranttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Raspberryfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cream, sugar, egg, brandy, bread, currant. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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