Name: Another Way to Reake Orange Pudding
Ingredients: 6 egg yolks; 3 egg whites; 3 tablespoons orange marmalade; ¼ pound loaf sugar, pounded; ¼ pound melted butter; 3 tablespoons grated bread; ¼ pint cream

Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Another Way to Reake Orange Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Make the filling

Beat the egg yolks and egg whites separately until well combined.
Mix in the orange marmalade, pounded sugar, melted butter, grated bread, and cream until smooth.

Bake

Line a baking dish with puff pastry and pour the mixture into it.
Bake until set and lightly golden.

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.

Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 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

Egg yolks: Add richness and help the filling set into a custard-like texture.
Egg whites: Add lightness and help the pudding rise and hold its structure when baked.
Orange marmalade: Adds sweetness, citrus aroma and a bright acidity to the filling.
Melted butter: Adds fat for a tender crumb and rich flavour.
Grated bread: Absorbs liquid and gives the pudding body and a softer structure.
Cream: Adds moisture and richness, producing a smoother, silkier filling.

The step that matters

Bake until set and lightly golden. Egg proteins set with heat, so underbaking leaves the filling runny while overbaking makes it dry and curdled. Look for a set centre and light browning rather than relying on time alone.

Swap the orange

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

Vanillafits better
Figfits better
Raspberryfits better
Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, butter, bread, cream. 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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Another Way to Reake Orange Pudding