Name: Marmalade Pudding
Ingredients: ½ pound suet, shredded; ½ pound bread crumbs; ½ pound powdered sugar; 1 pound marmalade; 4 eggs

Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Marmalade Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the batter

In a large bowl, mix the suet, bread crumbs, powdered sugar, and marmalade until well combined.
Beat the eggs and add them to the mixture, stirring until fully incorporated.
Place the mixture in a floured cloth and tie it securely.

Boil and serve

Boil the pudding in a pot of water for 4 hours.
Serve with a rich 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.

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 + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,638 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

Suet: Melts during boiling, adding richness and a moist, tender crumb.
Bread crumbs: Provide body and soak up fats and liquids to give the pudding structure.
Eggs: Bind the mixture and help set it into a cohesive pudding.
Marmalade: Adds sweetness, citrus acidity, and aroma to the pudding.
Powdered sugar: Dissolves easily into the mixture, adding sweetness and a fine texture.