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Delicious Blueberry Dessert

A chilled dessert made by layering stewed blueberries and buttered bread, topped with sweetened cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Delicious Blueberry Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Stew the blueberries and sweeten to taste.

  2. Butter the bread slices and cut off the crusts.

Assemble and chill

  1. Layer the bread and fruit in a dish, finishing with a thick layer of fruit on top.

  2. Place a plate on top and cool in the refrigerator.

Serve

  1. Serve with sweetened cream.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Bread + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Blueberries
Provide moisture and tart-sweet flavor as their juices soak into the bread.
Bread
Forms the body of the pudding and absorbs the fruit juices as it chills.
Butter
Adds richness and flavor to the bread layers.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and balances its tartness.

The step that matters

Place a plate on top and cool in the refrigerator. The weight of the plate presses the bread down into the fruit juices, and the cold lets the pudding set so it holds together when served. Chilling too briefly can leave it loose and soggy.

“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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