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Jam Duiviplings

Jam dumplings are steamed dough balls served in a jam syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,014 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Jam Duiviplings

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

  2. Add milk to the sifted mixture and mix with a knife until the dough is stiff.

Cook and serve

  1. In a separate pot, combine the jam and water to make a syrup and bring it to a boil.

  2. Drop tablespoonfuls of the dough onto the boiling syrup.

  3. Cover immediately and steam the dumplings for 12 minutes.

  4. Remove the dumplings and arrange them in a deep serving dish.

  5. Pour the remaining syrup around the dumplings and serve hot.

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.

  1. Milk + raspberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,014 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + raspberrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,262 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

What each ingredient does

Pastry flour
Forms the structure of the dough that holds each dumpling together while it steams.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the dough so the dumplings rise and turn light and fluffy.
Milk
Moistens the flour so it becomes a stiff dough that can be dropped by spoonfuls.
Jam
Sweetens and flavours the syrup that the dumplings steam in and is served around them.

The step that matters

Cover immediately and steam the dumplings. Trapped steam cooks and lifts the dough. If the lid is left off, heat escapes, the dumplings cook unevenly and may turn dense rather than light.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, milk):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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