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Creamed Nuts

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Nuts and coconut work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 142 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Creamed Nuts

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shell the nuts and remove the thick inner covering by soaking them in scalding water for 2-3 minutes.

  2. Rub off the skins with your fingers.

  3. Form the foundation cream into balls.

  4. Press the nut meats onto the sides of the balls or encase them in the center.

  5. For nut bars, stir whole or chopped nuts into the cream and pour into a lined shallow tin.

  6. When cold, lift out the paper and cut into bars.

  7. For coconut bars, stir in the grated coconut before the cream is fully worked, then mix until combined.

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. Nuts + coconuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together142 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Cream + coconuttop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,223 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Swap the coconut

The recipe marks coconut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (nuts, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Raisinfits less well
  4. Strawberryfits less well

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

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