Why it works: Wine and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,936 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Dumplings and Puddings
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the cake for one hour.
Steam the soaked cake for one and a half hours.
Serve with wine sauce or custard.
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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Wine + saucetop 32% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,936 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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