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Orange Marmalade Pudding

A steamed pudding made with stale bread crumbs, orange marmalade, flour, suet, sugar, egg, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Orange Marmalade Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together.

  2. Add the sugar, bread crumbs, suet, and marmalade; stir well.

  3. Add the beaten egg and enough milk to make a moist dough. Stir well and fill a thoroughly buttered mold to within an inch of the top.

Steam and serve

  1. Cover tightly and steam for 2 hours.

  2. Turn it out onto a hot dish and pour sauce around 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.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  3. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Flour
Provides the main structure that holds the pudding together as it steams.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the pudding a soft, tender crumb.
Suet
Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and rich as it steams.
Egg
Binds the dough and helps set the pudding's structure.
Baking powder
Releases gas during steaming so the pudding rises and lightens.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, citrus acidity, and flavour throughout the pudding.

The step that matters

Filling the mold. Leaving room to the top of the mold lets the pudding rise as it steams without overflowing. The mold must be thoroughly buttered so the cooked pudding releases cleanly when turned out.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, flour, sugar, 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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