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Dainty Dates

Dates filled with desiccated coconut, boiled and rolled in coconut.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Dates and coconut work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 76 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Dainty Dates

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dates

  1. Cover the dates with boiling water and let them stand for 3 minutes.

  2. Wash the dates well in cold water.

  3. Remove the outer skin and stones from the dates.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the dates with desiccated coconut.

  2. Roll each date in the coconut and arrange them on a glass dish.

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. Dates + coconuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Dates
Provide the sweet, soft base that holds the coconut filling.
Desiccated coconut
Adds a dry, chewy texture and a mild coconut flavour to the outside and filling.

“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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