Name: Baked Gooseberry Pudding
Ingredients: 1 pint green gooseberry pulp; 4 eggs; 2 ounces butter; 1 ounce grated bread crumbs; 6 ounces sugar

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Gooseberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Stew green gooseberries in a jar or saucepan of water until they become pulp.
Pass the pulp through a coarse sieve.
In a bowl, combine the pulp with eggs, butter, bread crumbs, and sugar.
Put a crust around the edge of your dish.

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.

Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Gooseberry + buttertop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together70 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).