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Creamed Corn Soup

A creamy soup made with bacon, creamed corn, onion, butter, flour, milk, and seasonings.

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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Creamed Corn Soup

Time10 to 15 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Dice bacon.

  2. Cook bacon over low heat in a Dutch oven or other heavy soup kettle until almost all the fat has been rendered.

  3. Pour off rendered fat.

  4. Add corn, water, and onion.

  5. Cook, stirring often, for 10 to 15 minutes.

Make the milk sauce

  1. In a saucepan, melt butter and stir in the flour.

  2. When bubbly, add the milk, stirring constantly.

  3. Cook, continuing to stir, until steaming hot.

Combine and season

  1. Add the corn mixture.

  2. Mix well and season to taste with salt.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

876Calories
28 gProtein
25 gFat
136 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  5. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon
Its rendered fat adds savory flavor to the pan that the soup is built on.
Creamed corn
Provides the main body, sweetness and corn flavor of the soup.
Onion
Softens while cooking to add aromatic sweetness to the base.
Butter
Enriches the milk sauce and adds fat and rich flavor.
Flour
Thickens the butter and milk mixture, giving the soup a smoother, fuller texture.
Milk
Adds creaminess and body, and with the flour forms a thickened sauce.

The step that matters

Stirring the milk into the roux. Adding milk to a flour and butter roux while stirring constantly keeps the mixture smooth. Stopping to stir can let the flour clump and leave lumps in the sauce.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, butter, flour, milk, pepper, sauce):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, butter, flour, milk, pepper, sauce. 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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