Name: Common Potato Pudding
Ingredients: potatoes; milk; salt

Why it works: Potato and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,611 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Common Potato Pudding

Ingredients

potatoes
milk
salt

Directions

Mash the potatoes and add a little milk. Season to taste.
Pour the mixture into a Yorkshire pudding tin.
Bake as directed for Yorkshire pudding.

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.

Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,611 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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What each ingredient does

Potatoes: Provide the starchy base that gives the pudding its body and soft, mashed texture.
Milk: Adds moisture and loosens the mashed potato so it spreads and bakes evenly.

“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.