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Salted Almonds

Salted almonds are toasted almonds flavored with butter and 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 butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,245 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Salted Almonds

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Blanch the almonds and thoroughly dry them the day before using.

Cook

  1. In a baking pan, melt the butter over high heat.

  2. Add the almonds and stir often until they are golden brown.

Dry and salt

  1. Remove from the oven and place on brown paper to dry, sprinkling with salt.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Almonds
Provide the crunchy body and nutty flavor of the finished snack.
Butter
Adds fat that conducts heat to the almonds and promotes browning for a rich, toasty flavor.

The step that matters

Stirring the almonds until golden brown. At high heat, butter solids and the natural sugars in almonds can go from golden to burnt within moments. Stirring often spreads the heat evenly, so the almonds brown uniformly instead of scorching in spots.

“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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