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Orange Marmalade Pudding

A steamed bread pudding made with wholemeal bread, orange marmalade, milk, eggs, and butter.

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 ↓

Orange Marmalade Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble and soak

  1. Butter a mold thoroughly.

  2. Cut the bread into slices and butter them.

  3. Arrange the bread and butter in the mold in layers, spreading each layer with marmalade.

  4. When the mold is full, beat the eggs with the milk and pour it over the layers.

  5. Let the whole soak for 1 hour.

Steam and serve

  1. Cover the mold tightly and steam the pudding for 1½ hours.

  2. Dip the mold in cold water for 1 minute before turning it out.

  3. Serve with white 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Orange + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Wholemeal bread
Forms the layered structure that the custard soaks into and holds together.
Eggs
Set when steamed, binding the custard so the pudding holds its shape.
Milk
Provides the liquid that softens the bread and forms the custard.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, citrus acidity and aroma between the bread layers.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour through the bread layers.

The step that matters

Cover the mold tightly and steam the pudding for 1½ hours. A tight cover traps steam so the pudding cooks gently and evenly. Eggs set gradually in moist heat, which keeps the custard smooth rather than rubbery or curdled.

Swap the orange

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

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

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