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Almond Ob Pistachio Tablet

A sugar candy made with blanched almonds or pistachios, boiled until it cracks and snaps.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,679 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Almond Ob Pistachio Tablet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tablet

  1. Boil the sugar in a pot for 20 minutes.

  2. Stir in the blanched and dried almonds or pistachios.

  3. Continue boiling until the mixture crackles when dropped in cold water and snaps between your teeth without sticking.

Set and unmold

  1. Pour the mixture into an oiled tin mold.

  2. When nearly cool, remove it from the mold.

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. Sugar + almondtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Forms the candy base and, when boiled to the right stage, sets into a brittle, crisp texture.
Almonds or pistachios
Add nutty flavour and crunch to the set tablet.

The step that matters

Boiling to the hard-crack stage. Sugar must reach a high enough temperature that, when cooled, it sets hard and brittle rather than soft or sticky. Judging by the cold-water test, the mixture must crackle and snap, which shows enough water has boiled off. Stopping early leaves the tablet tacky.

“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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