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Malt Loaf and Marmalade Bread and Butter Pudding

Malt loaf, marmalade and cinnamon custard are a match made in heaven. Serve with a dollop of orange zesty crème fraîche for true decadence.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and malt share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep1 hr
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Butter + malttop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together44 recipes

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

  2. Cinnamon + orangetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  4. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

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

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  3. Peachbetter flavor fit
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, malt, milk, cream, egg, sugar, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).