Name: Sausage Pudding
Ingredients: Sausages; Mushrooms; Lemon juice; Chestnuts; Pudding paste

Why it works: Mushroom and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 474 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Sausage Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Boil the ingredients for three minutes.
Fill the pudding with the mixture and cover it with paste.
Steam the pudding due to its richness.
Carefully turn it out of the basin to avoid breaking.
Pour a rich brown sauce underneath and serve.

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.

Mushroom + chestnuttop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together474 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Lemon + chestnuttop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together381 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Mushroom + lemontop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).