Name: Bread Crumbs for Pastry
Ingredients: grated bread crumbs; butter

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 ↓

Bread Crumbs for Pastry

Ingredients

grated bread crumbs
butter

Directions

Prepare

Butter a pie plate or pudding dish.
Strew a layer of grated bread crumbs over the bottom to form a crust.

Assemble and bake

Pour in your pudding mixture.
Strew another layer of grated bread crumbs over the top.
Bake until golden brown.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Grated bread crumbs: Form a crisp, golden crust on the top and bottom of the pudding.
Butter: Greases the dish so the crumbs and pudding release cleanly and brown richly.

“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.