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Haricots Rouges Au Lard

Red beans cooked with salted pork and butter, seasoned with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,000 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Haricots Rouges Au Lard

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the red beans in warm water.

  2. Boil the beans with the blanched salted pork, then set aside.

  3. Drain the beans and pork, remove the rind from the pork, and cut it into pieces.

Cook and serve

  1. Sauté the beans in butter, season to taste, and serve with the pork around them.

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. Beans + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

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

  2. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Beans + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,799 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Red beans
Starch and protein give the beans body and a soft, filling texture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour when the beans are sautéed.
Salted pork
Contributes savoury, salty fat that flavours the beans while they boil.

Swap the beans

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

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Soybeanfits better
  3. Lima beansfits about as well
  4. Beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, butter. 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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