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Stewed Beans with Corned Shoulder of Pork

A stew of small white beans and corned shoulder of pork cooked with onion and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,242 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stewed Beans with Corned Shoulder of Pork

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the beans overnight.

  2. Place the corned shoulder in an earthen dish.

Cook

  1. Add the soaked beans, onion, and pepper.

  2. Cover with water and cook for 5 hours.

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 + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,242 recipes

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

  2. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,214 recipes

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

  3. Beans + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,733 recipes

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

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

Small white beans
Provide the main bulk and starch that become tender and creamy during the long cooking.
Corned shoulder of pork
Adds savory, salty flavor and rich fat that seasons the beans as they simmer.
Onion
Adds aromatic sweetness and depth of flavor to the cooking liquid.

The step that matters

Cook for 5 hours. Dried beans need a long, gentle simmer covered in water to soften fully. Stopping early leaves them firm, and the pork needs the same time to become tender.

Swap the beans

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

  1. Sesamefits about as well
  2. Black-eyed peafits about as well
  3. Beansthe original
  4. Soybeanfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, 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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