Name: Ginger Suet Pudding
Ingredients: 1 cup plain suet pudding; ½ cup molasses; 1 tablespoon ground ginger; Lemon sauce (for serving)

Why it works: Ginger and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Ginger Suet Pudding

Ingredients

1 cup plain suet pudding
½ cup molasses
1 tablespoon ground ginger
Lemon sauce (for serving)

Directions

Add molasses and ground ginger to the plain suet pudding.
Mix well until combined.
Serve warm with lemon 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 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.

Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,154 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Molasses + gingertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together4,116 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Molasses + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together280 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ginger + saucetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,409 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Lemon + saucetop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,598 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).