Name: Another Huckleberry Pudding
Ingredients: cream of tartar dough (for biscuits); any kind of berries or stewed apple; rich sweet sauce

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 ↓

Another Huckleberry Pudding

Ingredients

cream of tartar dough (for biscuits)
any kind of berries or stewed apple
rich sweet sauce

Directions

Prepare cream of tartar dough as you would for biscuits and roll it very thin.
Line the bottom of a pudding mold (a Charlotte Russe mold works well).
Layer berries or stewed apple in the mold, followed by a layer of dough.
Repeat layering until the mold is full.
Place the mold in a steamer and steam for four hours, adjusting time based on pudding size.
Serve with rich sweet sauce.

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).
Biscuit + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together197 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cream + biscuittop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,235 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Biscuit + appletop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together260 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Cream + appletop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,089 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).