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Lime - Bean Chowder

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,017 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Lime - Bean Chowder

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the lime beans by cooking them until tender.

  2. Serve with crackers or bread and butter.

  3. Add fresh celery as a side.

  4. Boil rice and mix with honey before serving.

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 + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

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

  2. Lime + beanstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Lime + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Beans + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, bread, butter, celery, rice, honey):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, bread, butter, celery, rice, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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