Name: Preserve Dumplings
Ingredients: Preserved peaches; Preserved plums; Preserved quinces; Preserved cherries; Flour; Water; Cream

Why it works: Peach and plum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Preserve Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Make a light dough crust.
Roll out a small piece of dough to moderate thickness.
Fill with preserved fruit to form a dumpling the size of a peach.
Tie each dumpling in a well-floured cloth.
Drop dumplings into boiling water and cook for 30 minutes.
Remove the cloth and serve hot with cream.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Peach + plumtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together163 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Plum + quincetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together92 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Peach + quincetop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together46 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Quince + flourtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together143 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Peach + flourtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together787 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).