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Prune Nutora

A steamed dessert made from cooked prunes, peanut butter, water, cornstarch, salt, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Prune Nutora

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub the cooked prunes through a colander.

  2. In a bowl, dissolve the peanut butter and cornstarch in the water.

  3. Add the prunes, salt, and sugar to the mixture.

  4. Beat the mixture for five minutes.

Steam

  1. Steam in cans for three 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 + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Peanut + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Prunes
Provide sweetness, fruity flavor, and moisture to the mixture.
Peanut butter
Supplies fat and rich nutty flavor to the dish.
Cornstarch
Thickens the mixture as it heats, giving it a set, sliceable body.

The step that matters

Beat the mixture for five minutes. Beating disperses the cornstarch and peanut butter evenly through the water and prunes. Without thorough mixing, starch can clump and leave lumps or uneven thickening after steaming.

Swap the peanut

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar. 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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