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Nut-fig Marmalade

A marmalade made by layering ground figs, blanched Brazil nuts, and seeded raisins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Fig and raisin work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 737 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Nut-fig Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread ground figs on a small platter to form a layer ¼ inch thick.

  2. Add a layer of blanched, sliced Brazil nuts, about ⅛ inch thick.

  3. Top with a layer of seeded raisins.

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. Fig + raisintop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together737 recipes

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

  2. Fig + brazil nuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Brazil nut + raisintop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground figs
Form the sweet, sticky base layer that holds the other layers together.
Blanched brazil nuts
Add a firm, crunchy texture and a rich fatty bite between the fruit layers.
Seeded raisins
Contribute concentrated sweetness and a chewy texture to the top layer.

Swap the brazil nut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (fig, raisin):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Brazil nutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against fig, raisin. 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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