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Marmalade Pudding

A sweet pudding made with orange marmalade, eggs, and milk soaked in bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,696 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Marmalade Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble

  1. Spread the orange marmalade on the bread.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs and mix with the milk.

  3. Pour the egg and milk mixture over the bread and marmalade.

Stand and boil

  1. Let it stand for 45 minutes.

  2. Boil in a floured cloth for 45 minutes.

Serve

  1. Allow to settle for a minute before turning it out.

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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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. Orange + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

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

  2. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  3. Orange + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,696 recipes

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

Orange and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,696 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when heated, binding the milk and bread into a firm, sliceable custard.
Milk
Forms the liquid custard base that soaks into the bread and keeps the pudding moist.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, bright citrus acidity, and aroma that flavours the whole pudding.

The step that matters

Boil in a floured cloth for 45 minutes. The egg custard needs steady, gentle boiling to set fully. If the water drops below a simmer, the pudding can stay wet and loose in the middle. A tightly tied cloth keeps water out so the pudding cooks evenly.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk. 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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