Name: Pistachio Filling
Ingredients: ½ cup pistachio nuts, blanched and chopped; pistachio coloring; 1 teaspoon rose water or ½ teaspoon almond extract

Why it works: Pistachio and nuts match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 425 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Pistachio Filling

Ingredients

½ cup pistachio nuts, blanched and chopped
pistachio coloring
1 teaspoon rose water or ½ teaspoon almond extract

Directions

Add the chopped pistachio nuts to the Marshmallow Frosting.
Color the mixture with pistachio coloring.
Flavor with rose water or almond extract.

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.

Pistachio + nutstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together425 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Pistachio + rosetop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together135 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Nuts + rosetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together47 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).