Name: Roly-poly Banana Pudding
Ingredients: 1 cup flour; ⅓ cup cold suet; ⅓ cup ice water; ¼ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons baking powder; Bananas, thinly sliced; Lemon juice

Why it works: Banana and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,134 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Roly-poly Banana Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Chop the cold suet into the dry mixture.
Mix quickly with ice water to form a dough.
Roll out the dough thin and long.
Spread the dough with thin slices of banana and sprinkle with lemon juice.
Roll up the dough like a jelly roll.
Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for 30-40 minutes.
Serve hot with sauce.

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.

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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.

Banana + lemontop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,134 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Flour + lemontop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,404 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + bananatop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,725 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).