Why it works: Flour and peach work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 787 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓
Dried Pea Pudding, Boiled
Ingredients
Directions
Chop the peaches and suet.
Mix them with the flour and salt.
Add just enough cold water to form a stiff batter.
Tie the mixture in a floured pudding bag, leaving room to swell.
Boil a large pot of water and drop the pudding in.
Boil for about 4 hours without interruption, or steam for the same time.
Serve hot with wine or lemon sauce.
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.
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Flour + peachtop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together787 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Peach + beeftop 24% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together73 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
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Flour + beeftop 25% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together10,677 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour and beef barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,677 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the peach
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, beef):
- Raisinfits better
- Avocadofits better
- Figfits better
- Peachthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against flour, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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