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Walnut and Cheese Crackers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and walnut work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 410 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Walnut and Cheese Crackers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast the crackers slightly.

  2. Cover the toasted crackers with melted cheese.

  3. While the cheese is warm, press half of an English walnut onto each cracker.

  4. Allow the cheese to cool so the walnut stays in place.

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. Cheese + walnuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together410 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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