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Apples with Nut Stuffing and Whipped Cream

Apples are hollowed, filled with a walnut and apple pulp mixture, and topped with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and walnut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,051 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Apples with Nut Stuffing and Whipped Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scoop out the apples, creating a shell.

Fill and serve

  1. Mix the chopped walnuts and apple pulp with mayonnaise.

  2. Fill the apple shells with the walnut and apple mixture.

  3. Arrange the filled apples in a circle on a large serving dish.

  4. Heap whipped cream in the center of the dish.

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. Apple + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,051 recipes

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

  2. Walnut + creamtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  3. Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,089 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess that binds the walnut and apple filling together.
English walnuts
Provide crunch and a nutty flavor against the soft filling.
Whipped cream
Adds lightness and a mild sweetness as a topping for the dish.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, cream):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, cream. 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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