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Date Creams

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Why it works: Chocolate and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,020 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Date Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the sugar thoroughly and knead lightly.

  2. Mold into desired shapes.

  3. For Date Creams, cut out the stones from dates, fill with cream candy, and close carefully.

  4. For Chocolate Candy, divide the cream candy into two parts; mix grated chocolate into one part.

  5. Roll out both parts to ½ inch thick, place them together, roll, and slice into ½ inch thick pieces.

  6. For Nut and Fruit Creams, roll out the cream candy to ½ inch thick, place nut meats in rows, press down, and cut into squares.

  7. Flavor with vanilla and let harden before using.

  8. Serve fruit and nut creams mixed, optionally rolling them in granulated sugar for a glistening appearance.

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. Chocolate + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,020 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + chocolatetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Chocolate + meattop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Meat + vanillatop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together331 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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