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Candy Cream Walnuts

A sweet coating of powdered sugar and water boiled and cooled, then rolled into balls with walnuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and walnut are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,147 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Candy Cream Walnuts

Ingredients

Directions

Make the candy

  1. Dissolve the powdered sugar in the water.

  2. Boil for 5 minutes and then cool slowly.

  3. Stir constantly and flavor when cold.

  4. If the mixture is not stiff enough to handle, work in a little more powdered sugar.

Shape and finish

  1. Roll into small balls and press half a walnut on each side.

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. Sugar + walnuttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Powdered sugar
Forms the sweet, firm candy base that sets as the mixture cools.
English walnuts
Add crunch and a nutty flavor to the finished candy.

The step that matters

Cool slowly before stirring. Cooling the boiled sugar mixture slowly and then stirring it while cold keeps the sugar crystals small, giving a smooth, creamy texture instead of a grainy one.

“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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