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Rum & Raisin Puddings

These individual desserts are deliciously naughty, so make plenty or you might have a fight on your hands when it comes to seconds

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and rum work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 153 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 9
Prep30 min
Cook35 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Lightly grease 9 muffin or pudding holes with sunflower oil.

  2. Put the dates and the first batch of raisins in a bowl. Pour over the hot milk and half the rum, and leave to soak for 15 minutes. Mash to a rough paste.

  3. Stir the bicarbonate of soda into the self-raising flour. Whisk the sunflower oil, beaten eggs and first portion of muscovado sugar into the soaked fruit.

  4. Fold the flour into the wet mixture until just combined. Divide evenly among the 9 greased holes.

  5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes, then turn out.

  6. For the sauce, melt the salted butter with the remaining muscovado sugar and the double cream in a pan over medium heat, stirring until smooth. Simmer 3 minutes.

  7. Remove the sauce from the heat and stir in the remaining rum and the last of the raisins. Let stand 2 minutes so the raisins soften.

  8. Spoon the warm rum and raisin sauce over the puddings and serve with crème fraîche.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Raisin + rumtop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Raisin + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,071 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + rumtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together967 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Rum + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Dates + raisintop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together358 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, raisin, rum, sunflower, egg, flour, sugar):

  1. Vanillabetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Applebetter flavor fit
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, raisin, rum, sunflower, egg, flour, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).