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Christmas Stollen Pudding

Good Food reader Marion Biles shares her recipe for this creamy and luxurious pud using leftover stollen

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 43,437 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6 - 8
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Place the cubed stollen in an 8-inch square baking dish and scatter the crushed amaretti biscuits evenly over the top.

  2. In a bowl, whisk the beaten eggs, double cream and milk together until smooth.

  3. Pour the egg and cream mixture over the stollen and amaretti, pressing the bread down gently so it soaks up the custard. Let stand for 10 minutes.

  4. Set the baking dish in a larger roasting pan and pour in enough boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the dish.

  5. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes until the top is golden and set. The custard must reach 160°F (71°C) in the centre because it contains raw eggs.

  6. Remove from the oven and let cool for 10 minutes. Dust with icing sugar if using, then serve warm.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream + sugartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together43,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Biscuit + sugartop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  3. Milk + eggtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Cream + biscuittop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,234 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  5. Cream + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,395 recipes

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

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