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An Economical Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,475 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Currant + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Flour + milktop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together76,993 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + curranttop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together8,066 recipes

Flour and milk share little aroma chemistry, yet 76,993 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, milk):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  3. Figbetter flavor fit
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).