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Baked Pork and Beans

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and molasses work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 491 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Baked Pork and Beans

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the beans overnight.

  2. Boil the soaked beans until softened.

  3. Drain the water and add fresh hot water from the kettle.

  4. Stir in the molasses.

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 + molassestop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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