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Pueee of Feesh White Beans, Newton Style

This recipe uses raw eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pueee of Feesh White Beans, Newton Style

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the puree as in the previous recipe.

  2. Dilute the yolks of 4 raw eggs in 1 pint of cream.

  3. Add the butter and stir the puree well.

  4. Mix in the finely chopped chives or parsley.

  5. Serve with chicken forced meat rolled into pea-sized balls, poached separately in broth.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Meat + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Chive + chickentop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together572 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + chickentop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

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

  5. Butter + chivetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg, butter, meat, chicken):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Chivethe original

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

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