Skip to main content
Dessert

Stuffed Dates

Dates filled with fondant or nuts and dusted with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Stuffed Dates

Why it works: Dates and sugar work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 985 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Stuffed Dates

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the stone from each date.

  2. Fill the cavity with fondant, a peanut, or a blanched almond.

  3. Dust the stuffed dates with fine 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.

Photo for illustrative purposes only · Contact us to use it

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

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

  2. Dates + peanuttop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

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

  3. Peanut + sugartop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Dates
Provide the sweet, chewy base that holds the filling.
Fondant
Adds a soft, sweet filling that contrasts with the chewy date.
Fine sugar
Adds a light sweet coating on the outside of the dates.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against dates, sugar. 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.

You might also like

Peanut CandyPeanut Candy82 recipesWhite CakeWhite Cake431 recipesPound CakePound Cake373 recipesOrange Bundt CakeOrange Bundt Cake349 recipes