Why it works: Sauce and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 173 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Apple Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Peel and stew the tart apples until well done.
Slowly stir in dry cornmeal until you have a delicate mush.
Cook for 30 minutes or more.
Serve hot as a dessert with cream, sugar, mock cream sauce, or syrup.
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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Sauce + syruptop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together173 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Sugar + syruptop 6% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,842 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together43,450 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
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Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,787 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,964 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the apple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, sauce, syrup):
- Vanillafits better
- Raisinfits better
- Strawberryfits better
- Applethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, sauce, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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