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Custard Pudding Fried Whole

A whole custard pudding is coated in eggs and breadcrumbs, fried until golden, and served with orange marmalade.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread 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 ↓

Custard Pudding Fried Whole

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pudding

  1. Remove the custard pudding from the refrigerator.

  2. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

  3. Coat the pudding in the beaten eggs, then roll it in bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat lard in a frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Fry the coated pudding until golden brown.

  3. Drain on paper towels.

  4. Serve on a napkin with a spoonful of orange marmalade on top.

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

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

  2. Bread + orangetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,084 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Egg + orangetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Egg and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,696 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
Beaten eggs bind the bread crumbs to the pudding and help the coating set and brown.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden outer crust when fried.
Lard
Conducts heat in the frying pan and browns the crumb coating.
Orange marmalade
Adds sweetness and acidity that contrast with the rich custard.

The step that matters

Frying the coated pudding. The pudding is soft and already cold, so frying over medium heat lets the crumb coating brown before the custard inside warms through and begins to lose its shape. Too much heat burns the outside while the centre stays cold.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Datesfits better
  2. Pumpkinfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bread. 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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