Why it works: Milk and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,014 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Rolled Jam Romo
Ingredients
Directions
Make a paste with the flour and suet, wetted with milk, and roll it until smooth.
Spread a layer of jam on the rolled paste.
Roll it up tightly, wrap it in a floured cloth, and tie the ends.
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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Milk + raspberrytop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,014 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Flour + milktop 14% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together78,219 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Flour + raspberrytop 20% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,262 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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
Swap the raspberry
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, milk):
- Raisinfits better
- Vanillafits better
- Figfits better
- Raspberrythe original
Fit is the average pairing score against flour, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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