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Dumplings with Fruit

Potato dumplings mixed with fruit and sugar, boiled until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,032 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Dumplings with Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the potatoes until tender, then mash them.

  2. Mix the mashed potatoes with the fruit and sugar until well combined.

  3. Shape the mixture into dumplings.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the dumplings in water until they float to the surface.

  2. Serve warm.

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. Potato + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Form the starchy base that binds the dumpling mixture and gives it a soft, tender body.
Fruit
Adds moisture, flavour and natural sweetness to the filling inside the potato mixture.
Sugar
Sweetens the mixture and balances the tartness of the fruit.

The step that matters

Boil the dumplings until they float. Floating shows the dumplings are heated through and the starch has set. Boiling too hard can break them apart, so keep the water at a gentle simmer.

“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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