Name: Malvern Pudding
Ingredients: 1 pint of red currants; 1 pint of raspberries; 1/2 pint of cream

Why it works: Red currant and cream work together. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 247 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Malvern Pudding

Ingredients

1 pint of red currants
1 pint of raspberries
1/2 pint of cream

Directions

Prepare

Butter a pie dish well.
Spread a layer of breadcrumbs.
Spread a layer of the fruit (red currants and raspberries), washed, picked, and mixed, with some sugar and bits of butter.
Repeat these layers until the dish is full, finishing with breadcrumbs and butter.

Bake and serve

Bake the pudding for 3/4 an hour.
Turn it into a glass dish.
Whip the cream and spread it over the pudding.
Sift sugar over all.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

115Calories

2 gProtein

6 gFat

15 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Raspberry	1 cup (123g)	64
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Red Currant	not in our table	0

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

By T. R. Allinson. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

Red currant + creamtop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together247 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Red currants: Provide tart acidity and juice that soaks into the breadcrumbs, moistening the pudding.
Raspberries: Add sweet-tart flavour and juice that softens the breadcrumb layers.
Cream: Adds richness and a soft, cool contrast to the baked fruit.

“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.