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Almond Fillings

A spread made from ground almonds and butter, layered between slices of brown or nut bread, optionally flavored with pineapple.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Almond Fillings

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grind the blanched almonds finely.

  2. Brown the ground almonds in a skillet over low heat.

Assemble

  1. Butter slices of brown bread or nut bread.

  2. Spread the browned almond mixture between the slices.

  3. Add a little pineapple for variation, 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.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Almond + pineappletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together428 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Butter + pineappletop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,134 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Almond + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together858 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

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

What each ingredient does

Blanched almonds
Provide the main filling, with a nutty flavor that deepens when browned.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread slices and helps the filling taste rich.
Brown bread or nut bread
Forms the outer layers that hold the almond filling in place.

The step that matters

Brown the ground almonds in a skillet over low heat. Low heat browns the almonds gradually, so they toast evenly and develop flavor without scorching. Scorched nuts taste bitter and burnt, which spoils the filling.

Swap the pineapple

The recipe marks pineapple as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, butter, bread):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, butter, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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