>> If you use cooked egg noodles instead of bread, I'd call it a savory kugel. <<

It is related, yes.

>> I hadn't thought of flexible recipes in terms of algorithms. Thank you.<<

Yay! I am so glad I could help.

>> That gives me a way to write up such things as fruit kugel, along with most of the other traditional dishes I make. Except for the pastries, very few of them lend themselves to traditional recipe format. <<

I am fully bifocal. I can cook by logic or intuition, recipe or zen, translating freely back and forth as needed. This is rare, and sometimes people really snark over it. But I think it's important to explore because that expands what other people can do. Algorithms are tremendously valuable for making your kitchen and pantry more effective. It takes a little practice to identify what is fixed or flexible within an algorithm, and how to describe that, but it's worth the effort.

If you do, I'd love to see the links.