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Biscuit Pudding

Gooey chocolate Icing mixed with biscuits is a great pudding ideal for tempting your taste buds.

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Biscuit Pudding

Why it works: Biscuit and cashew nut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Biscuit Pudding

Serves 6

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

804Calories
18 gProtein
50 gFat
73 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Cashew1 oz (28g / ~18 nuts)157
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Biscuit + cashew nuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Sugar + cocoa powdertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Butter + cocoa powdertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  5. Butter + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the cashew nut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, butter, biscuit, milk, cocoa powder):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Hazelnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Cashew nutthe original

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