Name: Nut Bread
Ingredients: ½ cup blanched almonds; 1 tablespoon walnuts; 2 tablespoons pine nuts; ½ cup flaked oats; milk, water, or fruit juices; St. John's bread flour or chestnut flour

Why it works: Walnut and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 311 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Nut Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Grind the almonds, walnuts, and pine nuts until coarse.
Add the flaked oats and mix thoroughly.
Moisten the mixture with milk, water, or fruit juices.

Dry and serve

Spread the mixture in a thin layer.
Sprinkle the top with St. John's bread flour or chestnut flour.
Expose to sunlight for at least one hour.
Serve with grapefruit or tomatoes.

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.

Walnut + pinetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together311 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Almond + pinetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together176 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Almond + walnuttop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together993 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Almond + oatstop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together552 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).
Almond + nutstop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together394 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Blanched almonds: Provide the main body and rich, nutty flavour of the bread.
Flaked oats: Add bulk and a chewy texture that helps hold the mixture together.
Pine nuts: Add fat and a buttery, delicate nutty flavour.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, walnut, pine, oats, milk, bread):

Pistachiofits better
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Cashew nutfits better
Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, walnut, pine, oats, milk, bread. 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.