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Another Way to Cook Coen

Corn cut from the cob and scraped, cooked until the water is gone, then seasoned with pepper, salt and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Owen, Mrs. T. J. V · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 27 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Another Way to Cook Coen

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the corn

  1. After removing silk and husks, cut the corn from the cob.

  2. Do not cut too closely into the cob; take a knife and scrape it down.

Cook and season

  1. Cook it well till all the water is cooked out.

  2. Dress it with pepper, salt and butter.

Variations

  1. It is also good cooked this way with added tomatoes.

  2. For a baked version, put it in the stove, adding butter and bread crumbs as you put it in the pan.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1153Calories
40 gProtein
44 gFat
151 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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.

By Owen, Mrs. T. J. V. 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. See the original page.

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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  5. Potato + limetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together424 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

The step that matters

Cook it well till all the water is cooked out. Corn releases a lot of water as it cooks. Cooking it down until the liquid evaporates concentrates the corn's sweetness and keeps the dish from being watery.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, flour, milk, cheese, butter, egg, cream):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, flour, milk, cheese, butter, egg, cream. 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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