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Peach Baked Pudding

A baked dessert made with sliced peaches, bread, sugar, egg, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Baked Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Assemble

  1. Line a deep dish with thinly sliced baker's bread.

  2. Fill the dish with sliced peaches and sprinkle with sugar.

  3. Cover the top with bread dipped in a well-beaten egg.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown.

  2. Serve warm with cream.

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.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Bread + peachtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together55 recipes

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

  4. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Baker's bread
Soaks up juices and egg, forming the soft, layered body of the pudding.
Peaches
Release juice as they cook, adding moisture and fruity sweetness to the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top brown as it bakes.
Egg
Coats the bread and sets as it heats, binding the pudding together.

The step that matters

Bake until golden brown. The egg sets as it heats, so the pudding is done when the top is browned and firm. Underbaking leaves it wet and loose; overbaking dries the bread and makes it tough.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raspberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, sugar, egg, cream. 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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