Name: Chestnut Pudding
Ingredients: chestnut meal; fruit sauce; sliced oranges

Why it works: Chestnut and orange work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 112 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Chestnut Pudding

Ingredients

chestnut meal
fruit sauce
sliced oranges

Directions

Boil chestnut meal with fruit sauce for 10 minutes.
Set aside to cool.
Serve garnished with sliced oranges in sauce dishes.

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.

Chestnut + orangetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together112 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Chestnut + saucetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together255 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Sauce + orangetop 33% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together723 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).