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Marmalade Pudding

A steamed pudding made with marmalade, breadcrumbs, suet, eggs, baking powder, milk, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,759 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Marmalade Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Mix the suet, breadcrumbs, baking powder, and a pinch of salt together.

  2. Beat the eggs and add the marmalade, mixing well.

  3. Stir the egg mixture into the dry ingredients.

  4. Beat the mixture lightly and add a little milk if it is too stiff.

Steam and serve

  1. Turn the mixture into a buttered basin or mold, cover with greased paper, and steam for 2 to 2½ hours.

  2. Serve with additional marmalade, cornflour, or another suitable 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. Beef + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

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

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

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

  4. Orange + beeftop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together960 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. 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

Breadcrumbs
Provide the bulk and body that hold the pudding together.
Beef suet
Adds richness and moisture, keeping the pudding tender as it steams.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help give the pudding its set structure.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, citrus flavor, and moisture to the pudding.
Baking powder
Produces gas that lifts the pudding and makes it lighter.

The step that matters

Adding milk to the batter. The mixture should be stiff enough to hold shape but not so stiff that it steams dense. Adding milk only if needed keeps it loose enough to rise evenly and avoids overworking, which can toughen the texture.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, 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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