Name: Preserve Dumplings
Ingredients: Preserved peaches, plums, quinces, cherries, or any other sweetmeat; Flour for the crust; Water for boiling; Cream for serving

Why it works: Peach and flour work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 787 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Preserve Dumplings

Ingredients

Preserved peaches, plums, quinces, cherries, or any other sweetmeat
Flour for the crust
Water for boiling
Cream for serving

Directions

Make a light crust using flour.
Roll a small piece of the crust to moderate thickness.
Fill the crust with fruit to form a peach-sized dumpling.
Tie each dumpling in a cloth.
Drop the dumplings into hot water and boil for 30 minutes.
Remove the cloth and serve hot with cream.

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.

Peach + flourtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together787 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,481 recipes

Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).
Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together721 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).