Name: Sweet Puddings
Ingredients: 1 lb veal suet, chopped; ½ cup bread crumbs; salt to taste

Why it works: Veal and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,056 recipes. Both carry cis-3-hexenol, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Sweet Puddings

Ingredients

1 lb veal suet, chopped
½ cup bread crumbs
salt to taste

Directions

Prepare

Combine veal suet, bread crumbs, and salt in a bowl and mix well.
Transfer to a pudding mold.

Cook and serve

Boil for 1 hour.
Turn out onto a plate and serve with a rich brown 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.

Veal + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,056 recipes

Shared aroma: cis-3-hexenol (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Veal suet: Provides fat that melts during cooking, giving the pudding a rich, moist texture.
Bread crumbs: Absorb melted fat and help bind the mixture so it holds its shape.

“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.