Name: Prince of Wales Pudding
Ingredients: 1 lb flour; 1 lb chopped suet; 1 teacup raspberry jam; 4 teaspoons salt

Why it works: Flour and raspberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,262 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Prince of Wales Pudding

Ingredients

1 lb flour
1 lb chopped suet
1 teacup raspberry jam
4 teaspoons salt

Directions

Prepare

Mix the flour, chopped suet, raspberry jam, and salt in a bowl until well combined.
Pour the mixture into a greased mold.
Cover the mold with buttered paper.

Steam

Steam the pudding for 2 hours.

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.

Flour + raspberrytop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,262 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour: Provides the structure that holds the pudding together as it cooks.
Suet: Adds fat that keeps the pudding moist and gives it a rich texture.
Raspberry jam: Adds sweetness and fruity flavour, and moisture to the mixture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.