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For a Burning Plum Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Brandy and spirit work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry ethyl benzoate, which smells sweet. The science ↓

For a Burning Plum Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the pudding on a dish.

  2. Pour ⅓ cup of alcohol or brandy over the pudding.

  3. Set the pudding on fire at the dining-room door.

  4. Once on the table, quickly pour another ⅓ cup of spirits over it.

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.

  1. Brandy + spirittop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl benzoate (sweet).

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

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