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Orange Marmalade

A steamed pudding made with butter, sugar, eggs, bread crumbs, and orange marmalade, served with a sherry marmalade sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 ↓

Orange Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy.

  2. Lightly and thoroughly work in the eggs.

  3. Mix in the bread crumbs and then the orange marmalade.

  4. Place the mixture in a mold and steam for 45 minutes.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. For the sauce, boil 1 tablespoon of marmalade with ⅓ cup of sherry.

  2. Serve the sauce over or around the pudding.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Orange + sherrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together823 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Butter + sherrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Creams with sugar to trap air and give the pudding a rich, tender body.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set during steaming to give the pudding structure.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and add bulk, keeping the steamed pudding soft and moist.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, citrus acidity and flavour to the pudding.
Sherry
Adds depth and aroma to the sauce made with marmalade.

The step that matters

Lightly and thoroughly work in the eggs. Adding eggs too roughly or too fast can cause the creamed butter and sugar to separate or curdle. Working them in gently keeps the batter smooth, so the pudding steams to an even, tender texture.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, egg, bread, sauce, sherry. 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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