Name: Fruit Pudding
Ingredients: one cup molasses; one-half cup currants; half cups flour; half teaspoon soda; salt

Why it works: Molasses and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,429 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Fruit Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Mrs. S. W. Case, Minneapolis, Minn.
One cup molasses, one of sweet milk, one of suet chopped fine, one of raisins, one-half cup currants, two and a half cups flour, half teaspoon soda, mix with the molasses, salt and spice to taste ; steam two hours.
PUDDINGS AND SAUCES. 231

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

624Calories

14 gProtein

2 gFat

139 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Molasses	1 tbsp (20g)	58
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 Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio). 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.

Molasses + flourtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,429 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Molasses + curranttop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,817 recipes
Currant + flourtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,077 recipes