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Marmalade Pudding

A steamed or boiled pudding made with orange marmalade, breadcrumbs, beef, eggs, suet, baking powder, salt, and optional milk or cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix the orange marmalade, breadcrumbs, and suet.

  2. Stir in the eggs one at a time.

  3. Add the salt and beat well for a few minutes.

  4. Mix in the baking powder last.

  5. If the mixture is too stiff, add a little milk or cream.

Steam and serve

  1. Transfer the mixture to a well-buttered pudding basin and cover with buttered paper.

  2. Steam for 3 hours or boil for 2.5 hours.

  3. Once done, turn out onto a hot dish and serve with a sweet 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

Eggs
Bind the mixture and add structure as they set during cooking.
Breadcrumbs
Provide the bulk and body that hold the pudding together.
Suet
Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and rich as it cooks.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, citrus flavour and moisture to the pudding.
Baking powder
Releases gas during cooking to lighten the pudding's texture.

The step that matters

Steaming or boiling the pudding gently. The pudding must cook for a long time at a steady, gentle simmer or steam so the batter sets through without drying out or cooking unevenly. Letting the water boil dry or drop too low can leave it heavy or scorched.

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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