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Boiled Bread Pudding

A simple boiled bread pudding made with grated bread, milk, eggs, salt, sugar, and served with melted butter.

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 ↓

Boiled Bread Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Pour boiling milk over the grated bread and cover tightly.

  2. Let it soak for 1 to 2 hours.

  3. Mix in the eggs until well combined.

  4. Optionally add salt or sugar.

  5. Transfer the mixture to a basin that just holds it.

Cook and serve

  1. Cover with a floured cloth and place in boiling water.

  2. Serve with melted butter poured over it.

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

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated white bread
Forms the body of the pudding and soaks up the milk to set a soft, tender texture.
Milk
Softens the bread and provides moisture so the pudding stays creamy rather than dry.
Eggs
Bind the soaked bread and set during cooking to give the pudding its structure.

The step that matters

Covering the basin with a floured cloth. The floured cloth lets the pudding swell and seals in moisture while it cooks in boiling water, so the cloth should be secured well to keep water from soaking in.

“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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