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Green Corn Slices

A dish of boiled green corn mixed with onion, eggs, and breadcrumbs, sliced and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Green Corn Slices

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the corn

  1. Boil the green corn with butter, salt, and a little cold water for 5-6 hours until soft, adding water as needed to prevent burning.

  2. Let the corn cool, then fry the chopped onion in melted butter.

Shape and fry

  1. Combine the corn, fried onion, eggs, bread crumbs, and salt in a bowl.

  2. Cut the mixture into slices, coat with bread crumbs, and fry in hot nut oil until golden brown.

  3. Serve with onion gravy.

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.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Corn + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,205 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

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

  5. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Green corn
Forms the bulk of the slices and gives the main flavour and body.
Eggs
Bind the corn and onion mixture so it holds together when sliced.
Bread crumbs
Coat the slices so they brown and crisp during frying.
Onion
Adds savoury sweetness and aroma once fried in butter.

The step that matters

Boiling the corn until soft. The corn must be cooked long enough and kept from drying out, since adding water prevents scorching. Soft, moist corn binds properly with the eggs, so the slices hold their shape when cut and fried.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, butter, egg, bread. 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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