Name: Carrot Pudding
Ingredients: one cup grated raw potatoes; one cup grated raw car- rots; one cup brown sugar; one cup powdered suet; half teaspoon salt; one-half cups raisins; one-half cups currants; one-half cups flour; one teaspoon soda

Why it works: Raisin and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,075 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Carrot Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

Combine grated potatoes, grated carrots, brown sugar, powdered suet, salt, raisins, currants, flour, and soda.
Steam the mixture for 3–4 hours.

Serve

Serve with lemon sauce.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

727Calories

18 gProtein

2 gFat

161 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
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.

By Chicago. Bethany union church. Woman's society. [from old catalog]. 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.

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.

Raisin + flourtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,075 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Raisin + curranttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,180 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).
Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,481 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together92,116 recipes

Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).
Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,355 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated potatoes: Adds moisture and body, helping the pudding stay tender as it steams.
Grated carrots: Adds moisture and natural sweetness, giving the pudding its body and color.
Brown sugar: Adds sweetness and moisture, and its molasses flavor deepens the pudding.
Powdered suet: Adds fat, which keeps the pudding rich and moist during steaming.
Flour: Provides structure, setting the grated ingredients into a cohesive pudding.
Soda: Reacts with acidic components to lighten the texture and help it rise.