Name: Apple Pudding
Ingredients: 3 apples, grated; 1 tablespoon honey; 3 tablespoons flour; nutmeg, grated; oat granola for topping

Why it works: Flour and nutmeg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,623 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Grate the apples into a bowl.
Add honey and flour; mix well.
Spread the mixture about 1 inch thick on a baking dish.
Grate a little nutmeg over the top.
Cover the entire mixture with oat granola.

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.

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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.

Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,623 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Apple + honeytop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together569 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Apple + nutmegtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,790 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Apple + flourtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,140 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Honey + nutmegtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together508 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).