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Bread Dumplings Baked

A baked bread dumpling made with milk, butter, sugar, bread crumbs, eggs, and diced citron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Bread Dumplings Baked

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a saucepan, heat the milk with the butter and sugar until boiling.

  2. Stir in enough bread crumbs to form a stiff paste and cook until it detaches from the sides.

  3. Remove from heat and stir in the eggs one at a time.

  4. Add the diced citron and mix well.

Shape and bake

  1. Shape the mixture into buns and place on a buttered baking sheet.

  2. Bake until golden and serve dusted with sugar and 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.

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Butter + eggtop 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

Bread crumbs
Absorb the hot milk and form a stiff paste that holds the dumpling shape.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and add richness and structure as they set when baked.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a tender crumb.
Milk
Moistens the bread crumbs so they can swell and form the paste.
Citron
Adds candied fruit flavour and chewy pieces throughout the buns.

The step that matters

Cook the paste until it detaches from the sides. Cooking the bread crumb paste drives off excess moisture and gelatinises the starch, so the mixture firms up. If it is too wet, the eggs and citron will make the buns soggy and they may not hold their shape in the oven.

“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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