Name: Marmalade Pudding
Ingredients: 4 oz orange marmalade; 8 oz breadcrumbs; 6 oz finely chopped beef suet; 2 teaspoons baking powder; a pinch of salt; milk as needed

Why it works: Beef and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,759 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Marmalade Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

In a bowl, mix the suet, breadcrumbs, baking powder, and a pinch of salt.
In another bowl, beat the eggs and add the marmalade, mixing well.
Stir the egg mixture into the dry ingredients until combined.
If the mixture is too stiff, add a little milk to loosen it.
Transfer the mixture to a greased basin or mold, cover with greased paper, and steam for 2 to 2.5 hours.
Serve with a suitable sauce.

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.

Beef + milktop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,759 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).
Orange + milktop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,696 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Orange + beeftop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together960 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).