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Orange Pudding

A baked pudding made with egg yolks, egg whites, sugar, crushed biscuits, orange marmalade, butter, and lined with puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and orange work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 371 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Orange Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Beat the egg yolks until light and fluffy.

  2. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.

  3. Mix the yolks with the grated sugar and crushed sugar biscuits.

  4. Add the orange marmalade and mix well.

  5. Melt the butter over low heat and stir it into the mixture just before baking.

  6. Line a baking dish with puff pastry.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into the lined dish.

  2. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) for 15 to 20 minutes.

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. Biscuit + orangetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together371 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Enrich the custard and add richness and a smooth, set texture.
Egg whites
Whipped to stiff peaks to lighten the mixture and give it rise and airiness.
Grated loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves easily into the yolks for a smooth batter.
Sugar biscuits
Crushed to add body and a subtle sweet, toasty flavour to the filling.
Orange marmalade
Adds bright citrus flavour, sweetness and a touch of acidity.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender, moist crumb.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. The whites were whipped separately, so they must be folded in gently. Stirring them vigorously knocks out the air trapped in the foam, which limits the rise and lightness the pudding gets in the oven.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, biscuit, 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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