Name: Beignets of Almonds or Pistaches
Ingredients: almonds or pistachios, finely ground; milk; glaze (vanilla, cocoa, chocolate, or fruit flavoring)

Why it works: Almond and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,961 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Beignets of Almonds or Pistaches

Ingredients

almonds or pistachios, finely ground
milk
glaze (vanilla, cocoa, chocolate, or fruit flavoring)

Directions

Mix finely ground almonds or pistachios with milk.
Prepare the beignets as you would for the previous recipe.
Glaze the beignets with your choice of vanilla, cocoa, chocolate, or fruit flavoring.

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.

Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,961 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together19,187 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).
Almond + milktop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,800 recipes

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