Name: Preserve Dumplings
Ingredients: Preserved peaches, plums, quinces, cherries, or any other sweet fruit; Flour for dusting; Water; 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 sweet fruit
Flour for dusting
Water
Cream for serving

Directions

Make a light dough crust and roll it to a moderate thickness.
Fill each piece of dough with enough fruit to form a dumpling the size of a peach.
Tie each dumpling in a well-floured cloth.
Drop the dumplings into boiling water and cook for 30 minutes.
Remove the cloth, serve hot, and enjoy 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).