Name: Chocolate Nuts
Ingredients: English walnuts; pecans; Brazil nuts; chocolate

Why it works: Walnut and brazil nut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 66 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Chocolate Nuts

Ingredients

English walnuts
pecans
Brazil nuts
chocolate

Directions

Coat the nuts with chocolate in the same manner as other chocolate coatings.
Do not roast the nuts before coating them.

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.

Walnut + brazil nuttop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together66 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Pecans + brazil nuttop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together40 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Walnut + pecanstop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together634 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Pecans + chocolatetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together804 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Walnut + chocolatetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,548 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).