Name: Cake Trifle
Ingredients: rice cake; rich custard; raspberry jam; whipped cream

Why it works: Rice and raspberry work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 201 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Cake Trifle

Ingredients

rice cake
rich custard
raspberry jam
whipped cream

Directions

Bake a rice cake in a mold.
Once cooled, cut around the edge with a sharp knife, being careful not to cut through the bottom.
Fill the center with rich custard and raspberry jam.
Top with a generous layer of whipped cream.

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.

Explore the science

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.

Rice + raspberrytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together201 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Raspberry + creamtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,332 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Rice + creamtop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,399 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).