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Raspberry Dumplings

Dessert dumplings made from crisp tart pastry filled with raspberry jam, boiled and served with a butter-sugar-white wine sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and white wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,083 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Raspberry Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dumplings

  1. Roll out the crisp tart paste.

  2. Spread plenty of raspberry jam on the paste.

  3. Fold the paste and cut it into pieces.

  4. Form the pieces into dumplings.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the dumplings for 45 minutes.

  2. Serve with a sauce made from butter, sugar, and white wine, thickened to your preference.

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.

  1. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Raspberry + white winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. 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

Crisp tart paste
Forms a wrapper that holds the jam inside the dumplings while they cook.
Raspberry jam
Supplies the main sweetness and fruit flavor of the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, rounded texture to the sauce.
Sugar
Sweetens the sauce and balances the tartness of the wine.
White wine
Adds acidity and aromatic flavor to the sauce.

The step that matters

Forming the dumplings. The paste must be sealed fully around the jam. Any gap lets the filling leak out while the dumplings boil, which leaves them dry inside and dilutes the jam in the water.

Swap the raspberry

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, white wine. 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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