Name: Ckeam Walnuts
Ingredients: Cream; Walnut halves; Sifted powdered sugar; Pure fruit juice

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Ckeam Walnuts

Ingredients

Cream
Walnut halves
Sifted powdered sugar
Pure fruit juice

Directions

Roll a piece of cream into a strip about 1 inch in diameter.
Cut into 1-inch pieces and roll each piece into a ball.
Place a walnut half on two opposite sides of each ball.
Arrange them in pans and let them stand for a few hours to crystallize.
Alternatively, form a cone of sifted powdered sugar on a slab.
Hollow out the top and pour in a small amount of pure fruit juice.
Work it into a stiff cream and color it as desired.
Roll out and serve as before, crystallizing if desired.

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.

Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Cream + walnuttop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,982 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Walnut + sugartop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,147 recipes

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