Why it works: Cocoa and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 65 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓
Cocoa Nut Ice Pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Add the grated cocoa nuts to the custard while making it.
Pass the mixture through a fine sieve.
Freeze according to the instructions in recipe No. 483.
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.
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Cocoa + nutstop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together65 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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