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Pistachio Toroni

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and pistachio work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 328 recipes. Both carry pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Pistachio Toroni

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the pistachios and mix with candied orange flowers and sifted sugar.

  2. Proceed as for Toroni Biana.

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. Orange + pistachiotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together328 recipes

    Shared aroma: pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Orange + sugartop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + pistachiotop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,233 recipes

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

Orange and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, sugar):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Pistachiothe original
  4. Brazil nutfits about as well

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

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