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Salted Almonds

A simple recipe for toasted almonds seasoned with sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,875 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Salted Almonds

Ingredients

Directions

Blanch the almonds

  1. Pour boiling water over the almonds and let them sit until the skins slip off easily.

  2. Drain and quickly remove the skins.

Fry and salt

  1. Heat olive oil in a shallow pan.

  2. Add the almonds to the hot oil, shaking often until they are slightly browned.

  3. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt before serving.

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. Almond + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,875 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Almonds
Provide the main body, crunch and nutty flavor once toasted in oil.
Olive oil
Conducts heat evenly to brown the almonds and adds a rich, fruity fat.

The step that matters

Shaking the almonds in the hot oil until slightly browned. Almond sugars and proteins brown quickly and can turn bitter or burnt within seconds. Frequent shaking keeps heat even, so the nuts color uniformly and stay crisp as they cool.

“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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