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Prune Dumplings Recipe

Tiny dumplings filled with prunes, pearl barley, cottage cheese and thyme.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cottage cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 376 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep1 hr
Cook5 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Butter + cottage cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Flour + buttermilktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Thyme + barleytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Butter + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + barleytop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together575 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 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 thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, buttermilk, barley, cottage cheese):

  1. Dillbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Nutmegabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Thymethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, buttermilk, barley, cottage cheese. 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).