Why it works: Sugar and flaxseed work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 233 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓
Flaxseed Candy
Ingredients
Directions
Cook
Boil the sugar and water together with the glycerine.
When nearly done, stir in the flaxseed.
Set and mark
Pour into buttered pans to cool.
When partly cold, mark into squares with a knife.
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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Sugar + flaxseedtop 27% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together233 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Provides sweetness and sets into a hard, glassy candy as it cools.
- Glycerine
- Helps keep the candy smooth by slowing sugar crystallization.
The step that matters
Mark the squares while partly cold. As sugar cools it sets glassy. Cutting too early smears the candy, while waiting too long makes it brittle and prone to cracking along the knife line.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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