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Sticky Gingerbread Puddings with Ginger Wine and Brandy Sauce

If you want to make these puddings in advance, they freeze beautifully, and after defrosting should be re-heated as below.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and brandy work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 905 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep30 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By bbcfood. 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. Ginger + brandytop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together905 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Cinnamon + appletop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ginger, flour, cinnamon, clove, egg, butter, sugar):

  1. Raisinbetter flavor fit
  2. Vanillaabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Applethe original
  4. Orangeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, flour, cinnamon, clove, egg, butter, 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).