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Salted Walnuts, Filberts and Almonds

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 993 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Salted Walnuts, Filberts and Almonds

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Blanch the nuts.

  2. Dip each nut in melted butter.

  3. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt and a light dash of paprika.

  4. Place in a 400°F (200°C) oven and brown.

  5. Turn the nuts over and sprinkle with more salt.

  6. Turn over again and brown slightly.

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. Walnut + almondtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together993 recipes

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

  2. Nuts + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together394 recipes

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

  3. Nuts + filberttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

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

  4. Nuts + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. 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

Swap the filbert

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

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Brazil nutfits better
  3. Hazelnutfits better
  4. Filbertthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against nuts, walnut, almond, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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