Name: Small and Very Light Plum Pudding
Ingredients: three ounces of the crumb of a stale loaf finely grated; six ounces of suet minced very small; one ounce of dry bread-crumbs; ten ounces of stoned raisins; a pint of boiling milk; three eggs; one white

Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Small and Very Light Plum Pudding

Ingredients

three ounces of the crumb of a stale loaf finely grated
six ounces of suet minced very small
one ounce of dry bread-crumbs
ten ounces of stoned raisins
a pint of boiling milk
three eggs
one white

Directions

Prepare the crumb

Soak the grated crumb of a stale loaf in a quarter of a pint of boiling milk.

Mix and cook

Mix in the suet, dry bread-crumbs, raisins, a little salt, the grated rind of a china-orange, and three eggs, leaving out one white.
Boil the pudding for two hours.

Serve

Serve with a very sweet sauce; put no sugar in it.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

289Calories

15 gProtein

14 gFat

29 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62

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

By Eliza Acton. 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.

Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Raisin + milktop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,155 recipes

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).
Bread + raisintop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,111 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).