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Plum Pudding Ciu Vesuve

Holly berries are poisonous; do not serve.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and wine work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 956 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

Plum Pudding Ciu Vesuve

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the pudding with grated bread or flour.

  2. Cut a hollow on top of the pudding, about the size of a wine glass.

  3. Warm the cognac in a small saucepan.

  4. Carry the cognac and pudding to the dining room.

  5. Pour the cognac into the hollow, light it with a strip of paper, and serve immediately.

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.

  1. Bread + winetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together956 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

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