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Banana Sandwich Pudding

A custard baked or steamed pudding made from buttered banana sandwiches and a milk‑egg custard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Banana Sandwich Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the sandwiches

  1. Butter the slices of bread.

  2. Slice the bananas and make sandwiches with the bread and butter.

Assemble the pudding

  1. Beat the egg with sugar and add the milk.

  2. Cut the sandwiches into small squares and place them in a buttered dish.

  3. Pour the custard over the sandwiches.

Cook

  1. Steam or bake for 1 hour at 350°F (175°C).

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Milk + bananatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Forms the structure and soaks up the custard so the pudding holds together.
Egg
Binds the custard and sets it into a soft, sliceable texture when heated.
Milk
Makes up the liquid base of the custard, giving it a soft, creamy body.
Bananas
Add sweetness and flavor, and soften into the custard as it cooks.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor, and keeps the bread from sticking to the dish.

The step that matters

Baking or steaming the custard gently. Egg proteins set as the custard heats. Too much heat can overcook them, making the pudding grainy, watery, or curdled, so it should cook gently until just set.

Swap the banana

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits about as well
  4. Bananathe original

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