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Burnt Almonds White

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and syrup work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 746 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Burnt Almonds White

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sift the dust from the almonds.

  2. Boil syrup in a pan until it almost caramelizes.

  3. Add the almonds to the syrup and stir until they cool.

  4. Separate any almonds that stick together using a sieve.

  5. Boil another pan of syrup the same as before.

  6. Coat the almonds with the syrup twice.

  7. Separate the almonds after coating.

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. Almond + syruptop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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