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Boiled Puddings

A boiled pudding made with bread crumbs, raisins, orange rind, eggs, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,684 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Boiled Puddings

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Mix the bread crumbs, raisins, salt, and orange rind in a bowl.

  2. Add the eggs.

  3. Mix until well combined.

Boil and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a pudding cloth or mold.

  2. Boil the pudding for 2 hours.

  3. Serve with a very sweet sauce, without adding sugar.

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. Raisin + orangetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,684 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  3. Bread + raisintop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,111 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Bread + orangetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,084 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Raisin + eggtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,556 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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 boiling.
Dry bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the pudding body and a light crumb.
Stoned raisins
Add sweetness, chewy texture, and moisture to the pudding.
Grated china orange rind
Adds bright citrus aroma and flavor from the peel's oils.

The step that matters

Boil the pudding for 2 hours. Boiling must be kept steadily going so the eggs set through the center. Letting the water drop below a simmer can leave the pudding dense or uneven, and the cloth or mold must be sealed so water does not enter and dilute the mixture.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, raisin, 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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