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Raspberry Dumplings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Raspberry and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,308 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raspberry Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roll out the puff pastry.

  2. Spread raspberry jam over the pastry.

  3. Roll the pastry up tightly.

  4. Boil the rolled pastry for a little more than 1 hour.

  5. Cut the boiled pastry into slices.

  6. Pour melted butter into a serving dish.

  7. Serve the slices with the melted butter.

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.

  1. Raspberry + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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