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Mixed Dumplings

A savory dumpling made with flour, milk, butter, egg yolks, cinnamon, sugar, fried bread crust, bacon, and folded egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mixed Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a saucepan over medium heat, mix flour, milk, and butter until it doesn't stick to the pan.

  2. Let the mixture cool, then add egg yolks, salt, cinnamon, sugar, fried bread crust, and bacon.

  3. Fold in the beaten egg whites gently.

Cook and serve

  1. Form medium-sized dumplings using a tablespoon.

  2. Boil dumplings in salted water for 5 to 6 minutes.

  3. Serve with stewed pears, cranberries, prunes, or sauerkraut.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Cinnamon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Cinnamon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

All-purpose flour
Forms the starchy base that sets into the dough structure when cooked.
Eggs
Egg whites are folded in to add lightness, while yolks add richness and help bind the dough.
Milk
Hydrates the flour so it can form a smooth, cohesive dough.
Butter
Adds fat for tenderness and richness in the dough.
Bacon
Contributes savory flavor and fat to the dumplings.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Egg whites hold air bubbles that give lightness. Vigorous stirring knocks that air out, leaving the dumplings dense.

Swap the cinnamon

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

  1. Cinnamonthe original
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Capersfits less well
  4. Parsleyfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk, butter, egg, sugar, bread. 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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