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 ↓
German Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the mixture
Cream the butter and sugar together.
Mix in the stewed apples, soaked bread crumbs, lemon juice, lemon peel, and chopped almonds.
Fold in the beaten egg yolks and then the beaten egg whites.
Steam and set
Pour the mixture into a greased dish.
Steam until set.
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.
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Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,655 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Bread + milktop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together11,466 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
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Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together9,245 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Beaten yolks and whites add lightness and help the pudding set as it cooks.
- Bread crumbs
- Soaked in milk, they add body and moisture to the pudding.
- Butter
- Creamed with sugar, it adds richness and a tender texture.
- Stewed apples
- Provide moisture, bulk and fruity sweetness to the pudding.
The step that matters
Folding in the egg whites. Whites hold air only if they are beaten stiff and folded gently. Stirring them hard deflates the foam, so the pudding turns dense rather than light.
Swap the apple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, milk, butter, egg, sugar, lemon, almond):
- Vanillafits better
- Figfits better
- Peachfits better
- Applethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against bread, milk, butter, egg, sugar, lemon, almond. 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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