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Marmalade Pudding

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Marmalade Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy.

  2. Lightly and thoroughly work in the eggs.

  3. Add the bread crumbs and then the marmalade.

Steam and serve

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

  2. Boil 1 tablespoon of marmalade and ⅓ cup of sherry together, stirring constantly.

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

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

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 steaming.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender texture when creamed with sugar.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps create a light, creamy base when beaten with butter.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and give the pudding body and a soft, crumbly texture.
Flour
Provides structure so the pudding holds its shape after steaming.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness, citrus acidity and aroma to the pudding.

The step that matters

Steam and serve. Steaming at a gentle, steady heat cooks the pudding through without drying it out. Stirring the sauce constantly keeps the marmalade and sherry from scorching and helps them blend smoothly.

Swap the orange

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread, flour, sugar, butter, 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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