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Nutora with Peanuts and Eggs

Nutora is a peanut butter and egg white mixture cooked for three hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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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 ↓

Nutora with Peanuts and Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Add the water to the peanut butter gradually until smooth.

  2. If too thick, add more water and beat for 5 minutes.

  3. Beat the egg white to stiff peaks and fold it into the peanut butter mixture.

  4. Beat again for a few minutes.

Cook

  1. Transfer to cans and cook for 3 hours.

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.

Explore the science

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. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

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

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Peanut + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,351 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Peanut butter
Forms the thick, fatty base that gives the mixture its body and richness.
Egg white
Whipped to stiff peaks, its foam traps air and lightens the texture.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg white. Folding gently keeps the air bubbles in the whipped egg white. Stirring hard deflates the foam, which removes the light, airy texture it was meant to add.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Filbertfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

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

“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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