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Filbert Creams

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Filbert and nuts work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 38 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Filbert Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Butter or flour your hands.

  2. Roll the French cream around the filbert nuts.

  3. Melt chocolate in a bowl over a steaming kettle.

  4. Once the filbert balls are dry, roll them in the melted chocolate using a long hat-pin or fine knitting needle.

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.

Explore the science

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. Filbert + nutstop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Nuts + chocolatetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Filbert + chocolatetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Filbert + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Butter + chocolatetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,543 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (filbert, butter, chocolate):

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Nutsthe original
  4. Peanutfits about as well

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

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