Name: Peach Pudding
Ingredients: batter for date pudding; halves of peaches; sugar

Why it works: Date and peach work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Peach Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

batter for date pudding
halves of peaches
sugar

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare a batter similar to that used for date pudding.
Pour the batter into a baking pan.
Place peach halves on top, filling the cavities with sugar.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for about 20 minutes.
Serve with sugar and cream or hard 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.

Date + peachtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,308 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Date + sugartop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together601 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).