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Dried Corn Succotash

A dish of simmered dried corn with sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and pepper, optionally with beans.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Dried Corn Succotash

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Simmer the dried green corn in water until tender, about 1 hour.

  2. Add sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and pepper to the corn.

  3. If desired, include scalded and dried green beans.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  4. Corn + green beanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together39 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + green beanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together369 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Dried green corn
Forms the bulk of the dish and gives it its main texture once simmered until tender.
Butter
Adds fat, richness and a smooth mouthfeel to the corn.
Milk or cream
Adds moisture and creaminess, loosening the corn into a softer texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the savoury salt and pepper.

Swap the green beans

The recipe marks green beans as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, sugar, butter, milk, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, sugar, butter, milk, pepper. 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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