Name: Brown Bread Biscuit Pudding
Ingredients: 1½ dozen brown bread biscuits; cold custard (see recipe No. 8); almond sauce (see recipe No. 084)

Why it works: Biscuit and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 388 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Brown Bread Biscuit Pudding

Ingredients

1½ dozen brown bread biscuits
cold custard (see recipe No. 8)
almond sauce (see recipe No. 084)

Directions

Prepare

Cut the brown bread biscuits into slices.
Lightly place the slices in a mold.
Fill the mold with cold custard.

Steam and serve

Steam for about 45 minutes.
Serve with almond sauce.

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.

Biscuit + almondtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together388 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Bread + biscuittop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together319 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Biscuit + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together197 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Bread + almondtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together858 recipes

Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).
Bread + saucetop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,934 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Brown bread biscuits: Provide the bulk and structure that holds the pudding together as it steams.
Cold custard: Supplies moisture and richness, setting as the pudding steams to bind the bread.