Name: Biscuit Pudding
Ingredients: biscuit dough; fresh or canned fruit; cream; sugar; sauce of choice

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Biscuit Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a good biscuit dough.
Cut the dough into biscuits.
Place half of the biscuits at the bottom of cups.
Spread fresh or canned fruit over the biscuits.
Top each with a second biscuit.
Place the cups in a steamer and cover with the lid.
Put the steamer over a pot of boiling water and steam for 30 minutes or until done.
Serve with cream and sugar or any sauce you like.

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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,147 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Biscuit + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together197 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Biscuit + creamtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,235 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).