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Grilled Almonds

A simple caramelized almond confection made by cooking almonds with sugar until the sugar melts and coats the nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,679 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Grilled Almonds

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, combine sugar and almonds over medium heat.

  2. Stir continuously until the sugar begins to change color.

  3. Once the color changes, remove from heat immediately.

  4. Continue stirring until the syrup turns back to sugar and clings to the almonds.

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 + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Almonds
Form the crunchy nut base that the sugar coating clings to.
Sugar
Melts and caramelizes, adding sweetness, color, and a brittle coating.

The step that matters

Remove from heat as soon as the color changes. Sugar keeps darkening from its own residual heat after the pan is taken off the burner, so it can go from amber to burnt within seconds. Continuous stirring spreads the heat evenly and helps prevent scorched spots.

“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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