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Orange Pudding

A steamed or baked pudding made with breadcrumbs, milk, oranges, butter, sugar, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Orange Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Boil the milk and pour it over the breadcrumbs.

  2. Add the butter, sugar, and grated rind of the oranges.

  3. When cool, add the beaten eggs and juice of 1 orange.

Cook and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into well-buttered cups or ramekins.

  2. Cover with greased paper.

  3. Steam for 15 to 20 minutes.

  4. Serve with cream.

  5. Alternatively, bake in a greased pie dish for half an hour.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Breadcrumbs
Absorb the hot milk and form the body of the pudding.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set it into a soft, custard-like texture.
Milk
Softens the breadcrumbs and adds moisture for a tender crumb.
Butter
Adds richness and fat for a softer, more tender texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the citrus.
Oranges
Provide aroma and bright flavour from the rind and juice.

The step that matters

When cool, add the beaten eggs. Eggs set when heated, so adding them to a very hot mixture can scramble them. Letting the base cool first keeps the pudding smooth and evenly textured.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, milk, sugar, 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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