Name: Raspberry Pudding
Ingredients: ¼ cup butter; ½ cup sugar; 2 cups raspberry jam; 6 cups soft bread crumbs; 4 eggs

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 ↓

Raspberry Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Rub the butter and sugar together until creamy.
Beat the egg yolks and whites separately.

Make the raspberry mixture

Mash the raspberries and combine with the beaten egg whites.
Stir all ingredients together to form a smooth paste.

Assemble and bake

Butter a pudding dish and layer the bottom with bread crumbs.
Add a layer of the raspberry mixture, then more crumbs, repeating until the dish is full.
Finish with a layer of crumbs on top.
Bake for 1 hour.

Serve

Serve in the baking dish with raspberry fruit 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.

Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Raspberry + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together70 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

Butter: Adds fat for richness and a tender, moist texture.
Sugar: Sweetens the pudding and helps the butter become light and creamy.
Raspberry jam: Supplies fruit flavour, sweetness and moisture throughout the layers.
Bread crumbs: Form the soft structure that soaks up moisture and holds the layers together.
Eggs: Bind the mixture and set during baking to give the pudding its structure.