Name: Almond Pound Cake
Ingredients: 1 pound pound cake; ¾ pound sweet almonds, blanched and finely chopped; 2 ounces bitter almonds, pounded; 1 teaspoon rose water

Why it works: Almond and rose are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,465 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Almond Pound Cake

Ingredients

1 pound pound cake
¾ pound sweet almonds, blanched and finely chopped
2 ounces bitter almonds, pounded
1 teaspoon rose water

Directions

Prepare 1 pound of pound cake.
Add ¾ pound of finely chopped sweet almonds.
Mix in 2 ounces of pounded bitter almonds and 1 teaspoon of rose water.

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.

Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,465 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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Almond Pound Cake