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Stuffed Dates

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Stuffed Dates

Why it works: Walnut and dates work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 302 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Stuffed Dates

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix well-ripened fondant with finely chopped pecan or walnut meats.

  2. Add enough sherry wine to flavor the mixture.

  3. Prepare stoned dates and fill the cavity with the fondant mixture.

  4. Press the dates together and roll them in fine granulated sugar.

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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Explore the science

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. Walnut + datestop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together302 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Walnut + sherrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together188 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  3. Sherry + datestop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Dates + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together985 recipes

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

  5. Sherry + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,141 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sherry, wine, dates, sugar):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Peasfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sherry, wine, dates, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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