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Nut Puree

A puree of ground almonds, ground English walnuts, banana, and sweet milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 993 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Nut Puree

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix ground almonds, ground English walnuts, and banana in a bowl.

  2. Add sweet milk and stir until well combined.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 30 minutes before serving.

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. Almond + walnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together993 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Banana + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Almond + bananatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  4. Walnut + bananatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Walnut + milktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,236 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground almonds
Provide the main body and fat that give the puree its thick, smooth base.
Ground english walnuts
Add richer fat and a more pronounced nutty flavour to the puree.
Banana
Adds moisture and natural sweetness, helping bind the nut mixture together.
Sweet milk
Supplies liquid that hydrates the ground nuts and loosens them into a smooth puree.

Swap the banana

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Bananathe original

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