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Peanut and Pine-nut Nutora

A sweet paste made from peanut butter, pine-nut butter, water, salt, and optional corn starch.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 346 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Peanut and Pine-nut Nutora

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, dissolve the peanut butter with the water, adding it a little at a time.

  2. Add salt to taste and beat with an egg beater for a few minutes.

Cook

  1. Place the mixture in cans and cook in a steamer for 3 to 4 hours.

  2. If the cans are sealed, they can be cooked in a kettle of water.

  3. For a thicker consistency, add corn-starch or flour.

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. Peanut + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together346 recipes

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

  2. Peanut + pinetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  3. Pine + corntop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Butter + pinetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together358 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  5. Butter + corntop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Raw peanut butter
Forms the main body of the nutora and gives it its rich, nutty flavour.
Pine-nut butter
Adds a second nut flavour and fat, adding richness to the mixture.
Corn-starch or flour
Thickens the mixture as it cooks, giving a firmer consistency.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pine, corn. 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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