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Dried Peach Pudding

A baked pudding made with milk, bread crumbs, butter, dried peaches, eggs, sugar, salt, and flavoring.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Dried Peach Pudding

Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Dried Peach 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.

Make the base

  1. Boil the milk.

  2. Pour the hot milk over the bread crumbs.

  3. Stir in the butter and stewed peaches.

  4. Let the mixture cool.

Bake and serve

  1. Add the beaten eggs, sugar, salt, and flavoring.

  2. Pour into a well-buttered pudding dish.

  3. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

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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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. Bread + buttertop 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 + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Soak up the hot milk and form the soft body of the pudding.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the pudding into a sliceable custard.
Dried peaches
Add fruit flavor and moisture as they soften in the custard.
Milk
Provides the liquid that softens the crumbs and forms the custard.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the custard brown lightly at the surface.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before adding the eggs. Eggs scramble in very hot liquid, which can leave the pudding grainy. Cooling the base first lets the eggs blend smoothly and set evenly in the oven.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachthe original
  4. Applefits about as well

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