Name: Eggless Plum Pudding
Ingredients: 1 cup suet chopped fine; 1 cup molasses; 2 cups flour; 1 cup raisins; 1 cup sweet milk; 1 table-spoon soda; 1 tea-spoon cloves; 1 tea-spoon salt; 1 tea-spoon cinnamon

Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Eggless Plum Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Heaping cup bread crumbs, 1 cup suet chopped fine, 1 cup molasses, 1 table-spoon soda, 1 tea-spoon cloves,

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

786Calories

22 gProtein

10 gFat

154 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Molasses	1 tbsp (20g)	58
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
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 Sterrett, Laura C. 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.

Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,189 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Flour + raisintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,075 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Raisin + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,390 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Tea + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together245 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).
Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,341 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (molasses, flour, raisin, milk, tea, cinnamon):

Nutmegfits better
Cardamomfits better
Clovethe original
Gingerfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against molasses, flour, raisin, milk, tea, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.