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Stuffed Dates

Dates filled with cream cheese and rolled in powdered sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Stuffed Dates

Why it works: Dates and sugar work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 985 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Stuffed Dates

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the stone from each date.

  2. Fill each date with cream cheese or peanut meat.

  3. Roll the stuffed dates in powdered sugar.

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. Dates + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together985 recipes

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

  2. Dates + cream cheesetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  3. Cream cheese + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,791 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Dates
Provide the sweet, moist fruit body that holds the filling.
Cream cheese
Supplies creamy, mildly tangy richness as the filling.
Powdered sugar
Adds a fine, sweet coating that dries lightly on the outside.

Swap the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, sugar. 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.

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