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Orange Pudding

A baked or boiled orange custard made with bread crumbs, milk, sugar, butter, eggs, and orange juice and rind.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Orange Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the crumbs

  1. Soak the crumbs of the roll in milk for 30 minutes in a colander.

  2. Break the soaked crumbs into a basin with a spoon.

Make the mixture

  1. Add sugar, warmed butter, egg yolks, orange juice, and grated orange rind to the basin.

  2. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form and fold them into the mixture gently.

Bake or boil and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a buttered dish and bake at 400°F (200°C) until set.

  2. Alternatively, pour into a mold and boil for 1.5 hours.

  3. 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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Egg yolks enrich and set the custard, while whipped whites lighten its texture.
Egg whites
Whipped to soft peaks, they trap air and give the pudding a light, airy texture.
Roll
Its soaked crumbs absorb liquid and form the body of the pudding.
Milk
Softens the crumbs and adds moisture and richness to the mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the sharpness of the orange juice.
Butter
Adds fat, richness and a tender crumb to the pudding.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Whites hold air only while whipped to soft peaks. Folding gently keeps that air in, so the pudding rises and stays light rather than dense.

Swap the orange

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

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

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