Why it works: Dates and cream work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 276 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓
Cream Dates
Ingredients
Directions
Make a slit in each date and remove the stones.
Shape the French cream into small oval pieces.
Insert the cream into the side of the date where the stone was removed, leaving some cream visible.
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.
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Dates + creamtop 27% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together276 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
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