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Orange Pudding

A custard-like dessert made with egg yolks, egg whites, sugar, biscuits, orange marmalade, butter, and puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and orange work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 371 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Orange 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.

Prepare

  1. Beat the egg yolks until light.

  2. Beat the egg whites until light.

  3. Mix the yolks with the grated sugar.

  4. Pound the sugar biscuits.

  5. Combine the biscuits with orange marmalade.

  6. Beat the butter until creamy over low heat.

  7. Line a dish with puff pastry.

Bake

  1. Stir the butter into the mixture just before baking.

  2. Bake for 15-20 minutes 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. Biscuit + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together371 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Add richness and help set the custard-like filling.
Egg whites
Beaten to add lightness and help the pudding rise.
Butter
Adds fat for a creamy texture and rich flavour.
Sugar biscuits
Crushed to add body and a crumbly structure to the filling.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, acidity and orange aroma.

The step that matters

Stir the butter into the mixture just before baking. Adding the butter at the last moment keeps it from cooling and setting too early, so it stays evenly distributed and the mixture bakes into a smooth, light texture.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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