Name: Peanut Butter
Ingredients: fresh shelled roasted peanuts; butter; salt

Why it works: Peanut and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,754 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Peanut Butter

Ingredients

fresh shelled roasted peanuts
butter
salt

Directions

Grind the fresh shelled roasted peanuts using a grinder.
Mix the ground peanuts with butter and salt to taste.
Transfer the mixture to jars for storage.

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.

Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,754 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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What each ingredient does

Roasted peanuts: Provide the base solids that grind down into the spread's body and flavour.
Butter: Adds fat that makes the spread smoother and richer in mouthfeel.

“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.