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Salted Peanuts

Salted peanuts are roasted peanuts flavored with butter and fine salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,754 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Salted Peanuts

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderately hot oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Remove shells from the peanuts.

  2. Cover the peanuts with boiling water until the skins loosen, then remove the skins.

Roast and season

  1. Place the peanuts in a baking pan and put them in a 350°F (175°C) oven.

  2. Stir frequently until the peanuts are dry.

  3. Add the butter and stir until melted.

  4. Return the peanuts to the oven and cook until golden brown, stirring occasionally.

  5. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with fine salt.

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. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Peanuts
Provide the main body and flavor of the snack as they roast and brown.
Butter
Adds fat that carries flavor and helps the peanuts take on a richer, golden color.

The step that matters

Return the peanuts to the oven and cook until golden brown, stirring occasionally.. Peanuts can go from golden to burnt quickly at the end of roasting. Stirring spreads the heat evenly so they brown uniformly rather than scorching in spots.

“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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