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Cream Cheese and Nuts

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Nuts and brazil nut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Cream Cheese and Nuts

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread a layer of cream cheese on a serving plate.

  2. Top with thinly sliced dates.

  3. Add a layer of pecan nuts or sliced Brazil nuts on top.

  4. Serve very cold.

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 + brazil nuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Dates + brazil nuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Dates + nutstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together178 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cream cheese + nutstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Cream cheese + datestop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, nuts, brazil nut):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, nuts, brazil nut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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