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Malted Nut Oil

A warm malt extract and nut oil mixture, optionally sweetened with sugar or milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Malt and sugar work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 325 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Malted Nut Oil

Ingredients

Directions

Make the oil

  1. Mix the malt extract with the peanut oil in a bowl.

  2. Warm the mixture on the stove and stir until well blended.

Flavor and adjust

  1. Mix in a little sugar or milk for added flavor.

  2. Adjust the ratio to 80% malt and 20% nut oil if desired.

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. Malt + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Peanut oil + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together331 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Malt + peanut oiltop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

What each ingredient does

Malt extract
Provides sweetness and malt flavor, and a thick, sticky body that blends with the oil.
Peanut oil
Adds fat for richness and carries the nutty aroma of the peanut.

“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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