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Pignolia Nut Fritters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Nuts and lemon work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 470 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Pignolia Nut Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the fritters by substituting Pignolia nuts for pecans.

  2. Add ½ teaspoon of lemon extract along with salt to the mixture.

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. Nuts + lemontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together470 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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