Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓
Apple Amber Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Boil a large saucepan of water.
In a bowl, combine 2 oz. of flour and 4 oz. of finely chopped suet.
Sift 6 oz. of bread crumbs into the bowl with the flour and suet.
Peel, core, and chop the apples to yield ½ lb. of chopped apples.
Add the bread crumbs, sugar, and chopped apples to the bowl.
Grate the rind of a lemon and add it along with ¼ teaspoon of nutmeg.
Break 3 eggs into a separate bowl, then add them to the mixture and mix well.
Grease a pint-sized mold with ½ oz. of butter and pour in the mixture.
Cover the mold with a clean cloth, sprinkle with flour, and tie it securely.
Once the water is boiling, place the pudding in the saucepan.
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.
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Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together27,232 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Apple + nutmegtop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together3,790 recipes
Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
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Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together22,662 recipes
Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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Bread + appletop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,790 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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Bread + nutmegtop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together5,997 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the apple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, sugar, nutmeg, butter, egg):
- Vanillafits better
- Figfits better
- Raisinfits better
- Applethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against bread, sugar, nutmeg, butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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