Why it works: Nuts and cream work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 886 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓
Pistache Ice Cream
Ingredients
Directions
Pour boiling water over the pistache nuts and let them stand for a few moments.
Drain the nuts and cover them again with boiling water to loosen the skins.
Remove the skins from the nuts.
Pound the skinned nuts to a paste in a mortar.
Mix the nut paste with the cream.
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.
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Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together886 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
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