Name: Black-cap Pudding
Ingredients: ½ pound currants; light batter (made from flour, water, and other ingredients as desired)

Why it works: Currant and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,077 recipes. The science ↓

Black-cap Pudding

Ingredients

½ pound currants
light batter (made from flour, water, and other ingredients as desired)

Directions

Prepare a light, thin batter.
Stir in ½ pound of cleaned and dried currants just before pouring into the cloth.
Boil the pudding for the usual time.
Serve with the dark side facing up and accompany with a very sweet sauce.

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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Currant + flourtop 26% of all pairs

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Cooked together8,077 recipes

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Black-cap Pudding