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Sweet Cream Dressing

A dressing made from pine kernels, pecans, rich cream, and optional lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pine and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 480 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Sweet Cream Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind the pine kernels and pecans until fine.

  2. Mix with the rich cream until smooth.

  3. Let the mixture stand for 30 minutes before using.

  4. If desired, beat in the lemon juice.

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. Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pine + pecanstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

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

  3. Pecans + lemontop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together399 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Pecans + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together706 recipes

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

  5. Pine + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together123 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

Rich cream
Provides fat and body, giving the dressing its smooth, rich texture.
Pine kernels
Add nutty flavour and a little body to the dressing.
Pecans
Add nutty flavour and a little body to the dressing.

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, pecans, cream):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, pecans, cream. 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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