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Walnuts an Excellent Family Medicine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,147 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Walnuts an Excellent Family Medicine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Get green walnuts suitable for pickling.

  2. Place them in a stone jar and add ½ pound of moist sugar.

  3. Put the jar in a saucepan of boiling water for about 3 hours, ensuring no water enters the jar.

  4. Keep the water simmering during the process.

  5. Ensure the sugar dissolves and covers the walnuts; add more sugar if needed.

  6. Seal the jar tightly and let it sit for 6 months before using.

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. Walnut + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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