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Huckleberry Dumpling

A dumpling made from stale bread, eggs, huckleberries, brown sugar, and salt, boiled for an hour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Huckleberry Dumpling

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Cut off the crust of the bread and soak it in cold water, then squeeze it dry.

  2. Beat the eggs until light, mixing yolks and whites together.

  3. Add the huckleberries, a little brown sugar, and a pinch of salt to the egg mixture and mix well.

Boil and serve

  1. Boil the mixture steadily for 1 hour.

  2. Serve with hard 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.

  1. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  3. Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,638 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Stale bread
Soaked and squeezed, it gives the dumpling body and helps hold the mixture together.
Eggs
Bind the bread and fruit together and help set the dumpling as it cooks.
Huckleberries
Add fruit flavour, colour and moisture to the dumpling.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and a deeper, molasses-like flavour.

“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.

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