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Raspberry Pudding

A layered pudding made with butter, sugar, eggs, breadcrumbs, and raspberry jam, baked until set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,308 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raspberry Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the batter

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together until thick and smooth.

  2. Beat in the eggs one at a time.

  3. Add the breadcrumbs and mix well.

Layer the mold

  1. Grease a plain mold and coat it completely with brown breadcrumbs.

  2. Place a layer of the mixture in the bottom and cover it thickly with raspberry jam, ensuring it doesn't touch the sides.

  3. Repeat layering until the mold is full, finishing with the mixture on top.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 1 to 1½ hours.

  2. Serve with custard or another suitable 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. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

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

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 baking.
Butter
Creamed with sugar to trap air and give a rich, tender texture.
Breadcrumbs
Absorb moisture and give the pudding its body and soft crumb.
Raspberry jam
Adds concentrated fruit sweetness and tartness between the layers.
Castor sugar
Creamed with butter to help create a light, smooth base.

The step that matters

Keep the jam away from the mold sides. Jam pressed against the sides can burn or stick during baking, so the layer should be spread thickly in the centre as instructed.

Swap the raspberry

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against 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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