Name: A Good Plum Pudding
Ingredients: one-half pint of milk; two teaspoonfuls of sugar; one-eighth teaspoonful of salt; one egg

Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

A Good Plum Pudding

Ingredients

one-half pint of milk
two teaspoonfuls of sugar
one-eighth teaspoonful of salt
one egg

Directions

One egg, one-half pint of milk, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, slice of bread, one-eighth teaspoonful of salt, seeded raisins, flavoring. Make a custard of the egg, the milk — allowing a good measure of the milk — the sugar, salt, and flavoring to suit. Pour into a small baking-dish, drop in a few seeded raisins and place on top of the custard a small, thin slice of bread, well buttered and thickly dotted with raisins. The bread should be first dipped in the custard to moisten it. Bake the pudding in a slow oven until the custard becomes firm and smooth — say about half an hour. The pudding is to be eaten cold.
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

276Calories

14 gProtein

13 gFat

25 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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. See the original page.

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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.

Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together77,875 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).