Why it works: Nuts and syrup work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 168 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Burnt Filbert Prawlongs, Red
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Crack the Barcelona nuts and place the kernels in a copper pan.
Roast the nuts in the oven at 350°F (175°C).
Boil syrup in a pan until it reaches almost caramel consistency.
Dissolve a little cochineal in a cup, then add it to the boiled syrup and the filberts.
Stir with a large wooden spoon until the sugar hardens around the nuts.
Use a sieve to separate any nuts that stick together.
In another pan, boil syrup again to the same consistency and add the same amount of cochineal.
Mix as before for a finer color, then store the nuts in a box.
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.
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Nuts + syruptop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together168 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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