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Saltied or Roasted Almonds

A simple snack of almonds coated with butter and salt, then roasted until crisp.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,245 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Saltied or Roasted Almonds

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Blanch the almonds.

  2. Mix the almonds with melted butter and salt until well combined.

  3. Spread the mixture on a baking pan.

Bake

  1. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 15 minutes, stirring often, until they are bright yellow-brown and crisp.

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. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Almonds
Form the crunchy, nutty base that toasts and turns crisp in the oven.
Butter
Carries the salt evenly over the nuts and helps them brown and taste rich.

The step that matters

Stirring often while baking. Nuts near the edges of the pan heat faster and can scorch before the centre browns. Regular stirring moves them around so the colour and crispness develop evenly.

“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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