Name: Pudding
Ingredients: kidney; oysters; small shore-birds (Knots, Stints); Water-Hens; small wild fowl (Teal, Widgeon, Golden Eyed Duck); partridges; pigeons; small rabbits; chicken

Why it works: Rabbit and chicken work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 339 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Add kidney and oysters to the pudding for flavor, but note they will shrink when boiled.
Empty and quarter small shore-birds, Water-Hens, and small wild fowl before using.
Prepare partridges, pigeons, small rabbits, and chicken in the same manner.
Combine all ingredients in a pudding mixture and cook until done.

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.

Rabbit + chickentop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together339 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Oyster + rabbittop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together83 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Oyster + chickentop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together972 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).