Name: Coventry Puff
Ingredients: pastry dough; raspberry jam; 1 egg white; finely powdered sugar

Why it works: Egg and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 122,807 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Coventry Puff

Ingredients

pastry dough
raspberry jam
1 egg white
finely powdered sugar

Directions

Roll out the pastry dough to about ½ inch thick and cut it into square pieces.
Place a spoonful of raspberry jam in the center of each square.
Fold the sides to form a triangle and turn it over.
Notch the edges with a knife.
Brush the tops with whisked egg white.
Dust with finely powdered sugar.
Lightly sprinkle with clean water to moisten the sugar.

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.

Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together122,807 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Raspberry + eggtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,778 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).