Name: Sweet Potato Puddixc
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar; 2 tablespoons brandy are a good addition; 1 gill wine; 1 quart of cream which has been well chilled; 1 cup of sugar; 2 tablespoons of sugar; 6 tablespoons tapioca 6 hours; 1 quart milk; 1 cup tapioca over night; 3 tablespoons sugar; a pint of cream; 8 well beaten eggs; 1 lemon; 1 orange; 1 even teaspoon cinnamon; 3 lemons; 6 eggs; 1 small cup of tapioca j hour on back of stove; 2 eggs hard; 3 eggs; 1 egg; 2 eggs; mace; cinnamon; salt; lemon peel

Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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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.

Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10,634 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Brandy + winetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,427 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Wine + lemontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,157 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Wine + orangetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,046 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs: Bind the batter and set into a custard-like structure as the pudding bakes.
Sweet potatoes (in the method): Provide the bulk and moist, dense texture of the pudding.
Butter (in the method): Adds richness and fat, softening the batter and giving a tender crumb.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and helps the batter brown lightly in the oven.

The step that matters

Bake in a moderate oven. Eggs set through gentle heat; too hot an oven can curdle and toughen the custard-like batter or dry the top before the center is set.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, brandy, wine, cream, milk, egg, lemon):

Vanillafits better
Raspberryfits about as well
Figfits about as well
Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, brandy, wine, cream, milk, egg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Orange	1 medium (131g)	62
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Brandy	not in our table	0
Mace	not in our table	0

Sweet Potato Puddixc