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Peanut Butter

A simple homemade peanut butter made by grinding peanuts and mixing with butter, salt, and optional olive oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,027 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Peanut Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind the peanuts using a meat chopper.

  2. In a bowl, combine the ground peanuts with butter and mix well until fully combined.

  3. Add salt to taste.

  4. If desired, stir in a little olive oil.

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. Peanut + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Butter + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Peanuts
Form the base of the spread, and their natural oils give it body and nutty flavor.
Butter
Adds fat that makes the spread smoother and richer.

Swap the peanut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, olive):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Walnutfits about as well
  3. Pecansfits about as well
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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