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Baked Creamed Corn

Creamy sweet corn flavored with rich cream cheese, jalapeno and beer.

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Why it works: Cream cheese and corn work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 172 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep40 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and lightly grease an 8-inch baking dish.

  2. Let the cream cheese and butter sit at room temperature for about 20 minutes so they soften, then drain the canned corn well in a colander.

  3. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat, then add the cream cheese and stir until smooth and fully combined.

  4. Stir in the beer and minced jalapeno and cook for about 3 minutes, stirring often, until the mixture is hot and loosened.

  5. Add the drained corn to the saucepan and stir for 2 minutes until evenly coated and heated through.

  6. Spoon the creamed corn into the prepared baking dish and spread it level.

  7. Bake for 30 minutes until bubbling around the edges and lightly golden on top, then let stand 5 minutes before serving.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream cheese + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Cream cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Corn + jalapenotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together493 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Butter + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,333 recipes

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

  5. Butter + beertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together680 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, butter, corn, beer):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Cinnamonbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, butter, corn, beer. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).