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Raspberry Dumplings

Puff pastry dumplings filled with raspberry jam, boiled, then served with melted butter and grated sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Raspberry and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,308 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raspberry Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare puff pastry and roll it out.

  2. Spread raspberry jam over the pastry.

  3. Cut the pastry into pieces and shape them into dumplings.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the dumplings for 1 hour.

  2. Pour melted butter into a dish and sprinkle grated sugar over the dumplings.

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. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

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

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Puff pastry
Forms the outer dough that wraps the filling and bakes up flaky and tender.
Raspberry jam
Provides the fruity filling and sweetness inside each dumpling.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture to the finished dumplings.
Grated sugar
Adds sweetness and a fine sugary coating on the surface.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar. 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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