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Stuffed Raisins

A sweet treat of raisins filled with nuts and coated in powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,481 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Stuffed Raisins

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut selected raisins nearly in halves lengthwise.

  2. Remove seeds and fill cavities with broken nut meats.

  3. Press raisins back into original shapes and roll in powdered sugar.

Serve

  1. Arrange in a bonbon dish covered with a doily.

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. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Raisin + meattop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together484 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Meat + sugartop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,866 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Raisins
Provide the chewy, sweet base that holds the nut filling.
Nut meats
Add crunch and a rich, nutty flavor contrasting the soft raisin.
Powdered sugar
Adds a light sweet coating that dissolves slightly on the moist raisin surface.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Raisinthe original
  3. Figfits less well
  4. Coconutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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