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Raspberry Dumplings

Dessert dumplings made with pastry, raspberry jam, butter, sugar, and white wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and white wine are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,083 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Raspberry Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dumplings

  1. Roll out the pastry on a floured surface.

  2. Spread plenty of raspberry jam over the pastry.

  3. Fold the pastry and cut it into pieces.

  4. Form the pieces into dumplings.

  5. Boil the dumplings for 45 minutes.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. In a saucepan, combine butter, sugar, and white wine to make a thick sauce.

  2. Serve the dumplings with the sauce over them.

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.

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.

  1. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  2. Raspberry + white winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Raspberry + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,101 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Tart pastry
Forms the wrapper that holds the jam and keeps the dumplings intact while boiling.
Raspberry jam
Provides the fruity filling and sweetness inside each dumpling.
Butter
Adds richness and body to the sauce.
Sugar
Sweetens the sauce and helps it thicken as it cooks.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma to the sauce, balancing its sweetness.

The step that matters

Boil the dumplings for 45 minutes. Boiling for the full time lets the pastry cook through and seal around the filling. Too short a boil leaves the dough raw, while the jam can burst out if the pastry is not sealed well before boiling.

Swap the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, white wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, white wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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