Name: Boiled Batter Pudding with Fruit
Ingredients: 1 pint garden plums (or apples); flour for dusting; water for boiling; wine sauce or butter and sugar for serving

Why it works: Plum and wine work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 343 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Boiled Batter Pudding with Fruit

Ingredients

1 pint garden plums (or apples)
flour for dusting
water for boiling
wine sauce or butter and sugar for serving

Directions

Mix the batter until it is stiffer than for baking.
Stir in 1 pint of good garden plums (or sliced apples).
Prepare a cloth, wet it, and dust it well with flour.
When the water is boiling, place the pudding in the cloth.
Stir the pudding gently for a few minutes.
Boil until cooked through, which will take longer with fruit.
Serve with wine sauce or plain cold butter and sugar.

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.

Plum + winetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together343 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Plum + flourtop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together777 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + winetop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,435 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).