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German Bread Pudding

A custard-filled bread pudding boiled for an hour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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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 Bread Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat a pot of water for boiling.

  2. Beat the eggs and sugar together in a bowl.

  3. Warm the milk and pour it over the egg mixture.

Assemble and cook

  1. Butter a basin and layer slices of bread and jam alternately until nearly full.

  2. Pour the custard mixture over the layered bread and jam.

  3. Cover the basin and boil for 1 hour.

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.

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 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

Eggs
Set the custard so it holds the bread together as it cooks.
Milk
Forms the custard base that soaks into the bread and keeps it moist.
Sugar
Sweetens the custard and helps it taste rich.
Bread
Provides the structure that soaks up the custard and becomes soft.
Jam
Adds sweetness and fruity flavour between the bread layers.

The step that matters

Pour the custard over the layers. Pour slowly so the custard soaks through the bread rather than pooling on top. Eggs in the custard set during cooking, so a well-soaked layering gives an even, sliceable pudding.

“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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