Name: Madeira Pudding
Ingredients: Malt wine; Sugar; 2 thin slices of citron peel

Why it works: Malt and sugar work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 325 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Madeira Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Malt wine
Sugar
2 thin slices of citron peel

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Dust sugar over a piece of white paper.
Lay 2 very thin slices of citron peel on top of the sugar.
Bake in the oven for 1 to 1.5 hours.

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.

Malt + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together325 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Malt + winetop 26% of all pairs

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Cooked together45 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Wine + sugartop 31% of all pairs

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Cooked together9,581 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).