Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Marmalade Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Finely chop the suet and mix it with the bread crumbs, sugar, and marmalade.
Beat and strain the eggs, then mix them thoroughly with the other ingredients.
Boil the mixture for two hours.
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.
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Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together22,662 recipes
Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together122,807 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together8,638 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Bind the mixture and set it into a firm, sliceable pudding as they cook.
- Suet
- Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and rich as it cooks.
- Bread crumbs
- Provide bulk and body that soak up the marmalade and help hold the pudding together.
- Marmalade
- Adds sweetness, citrus flavour and moisture throughout the pudding.
- Sugar
- Adds sweetness and helps balance the sharpness of the marmalade.
“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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