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Nut Creams

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and mixed nuts work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 40 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Nut Creams

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stir the softened cream into the mixed nuts.

  2. Form the mixture into balls, bars, or squares.

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. Cream + mixed nutstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

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