Why it works: Biscuit and orange work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 371 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
A Good Sponge Cake Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Butter a tart dish.
Slice the sponge biscuits and place them in the dish.
Cut the candied orange or lemon rind into strips and place on top of the biscuits.
Whisk the eggs thoroughly and pour over the biscuits and rind.
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.
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Biscuit + orangetop 14% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together371 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Biscuit + eggtop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,643 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Orange + eggtop 31% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together10,696 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Orange and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,696 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (biscuit, egg):
- Pumpkinfits better
- Vanillafits better
- Raisinfits better
- Orangethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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