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Hickory Nut Cream

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,248 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Hickory Nut Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add chopped hickory nut meats to the French cream candy.

  2. Shape the mixture into cubes or bars that are 2 inches long.

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.

  1. Cream + meattop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,248 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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