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Peanut Candy

A simple candy made by melting sugar and mixing in peanuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Peanut Candy

Why it works: Sugar and peanut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,545 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Peanut Candy

Ingredients

Directions

Make the candy

  1. Heat the sugar in a small frying pan until melted.

  2. Add the peanuts and mix thoroughly.

Shape and cut

  1. Spread the mixture on a tin or iron sheet.

  2. Press into shape with a knife and cut into bars.

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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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. Sugar + peanuttop 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

Sugar
Melts to form the brittle, sweet candy base that sets firm as it cools.
Peanuts
Add crunch and nutty flavour that contrast with the hard sugar.

The step that matters

Heating the sugar until melted. Sugar melts and then darkens quickly, so it can burn if heated too far. Once it is a smooth liquid, mixing in the peanuts and spreading it promptly keeps the candy from setting unevenly.

“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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