Name: Cottage Pudding
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons coconut; flavored whipped cream; sauce of choice

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cottage Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

2 tablespoons coconut
flavored whipped cream
sauce of choice

Directions

Bake cottage pudding in square shallow pans.
Serve warm with flavored whipped cream or any preferred sauce.
For a dark sauce, add cocoa or chocolate to the sauce.
For added flavor, mix in mashed strawberries to the sauce when in season.

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 + saucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,787 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Coconut + creamtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,223 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Coconut + saucetop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together239 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).