Why it works: Nuts and lemon work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 470 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Nut Filling
Ingredients
Directions
When the boiled icing is thick enough to spread, stir in the chopped nuts.
Alternatively, add the nuts to a lemon or orange filling.
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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Nuts + lemontop 20% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together470 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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