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Almond Ob Pistachio Tablet

A sweet tablet made by boiling sugar with blanched almonds and pistachios, then cooling in a mould.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Frances Crawford · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,679 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Almond Ob Pistachio Tablet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tablet

  1. Boil a pound of sugar for twenty minutes.

  2. Stir in two ounces of blanched almonds and pistachios.

  3. Continue boiling until the mixture crackles when dropped in cold water and snaps between the teeth.

Shape and cool

  1. Pour the hot mixture into an oiled tin mould.

  2. When nearly cold, remove from the mould or place in a paper case.

  3. Optionally, work a portion white by adding almonds while still soft.

Make the caramel almond batch

  1. Blanch twelve ounces of almonds, wipe them very dry, and heat them in an oven.

  2. Boil six ounces of sugar to caramel.

  3. Throw the hot almonds into the caramelized sugar and mix.

  4. Pour the mixture into oiled moulds.

  5. Press the mixture around the mould, making it thin, and let it cool.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

56Calories
0 gProtein
1 gFat
13 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Frances Crawford. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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 + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 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
Boiling it to a set stage gives the tablet its hard, brittle, glassy structure as it cools.
Almonds
Add crunch and nutty flavour, and drying them first helps them stay crisp in the hot sugar.

The step that matters

Continue boiling until the mixture crackles when dropped in cold water. Sugar must reach the right temperature to set hard when cool. Stopping early leaves the tablet soft and sticky, while overcooking makes it bitter and burnt.

“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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