Name: Frozen Fruit Pudding
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons preserved ginger; ¾ cup sultana raisins (soaked in boiling water for 10 minutes); ¾ cup chopped nuts

Why it works: Raisin and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Frozen Fruit Pudding

Ingredients

2 tablespoons preserved ginger
¾ cup sultana raisins (soaked in boiling water for 10 minutes)
¾ cup chopped nuts

Directions

Prepare as you would for Ginger Ice Cream, using only 2 tablespoons of preserved ginger.
Incorporate ¾ cup of sultana raisins and ¾ cup of chopped nuts into the mixture.

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.

Raisin + nutstop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together490 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Ginger + raisintop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,242 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Ginger + nutstop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together116 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).