Name: Rapsberry Dumplings
Ingredients: crisp tart paste; raspberry jam; butter; sugar; white wine

Why it works: Butter and white wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,083 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Rapsberry Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Roll out the crisp tart paste.
Spread plenty of raspberry jam on the paste.
Fold the paste over and cut it into pieces.
Form the pieces into dumplings.
Boil the dumplings for 45 minutes.
Serve with a sauce made from butter, sugar, and white wine, ensuring the sauce is thick.

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.

Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,083 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Raspberry + white winetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together71 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,308 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).