Name: Baked Winter Squash
Ingredients: 14 pound dried lima beans; salt; pepper

Why it works: Lima beans and pepper work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 468 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Winter Squash

Ingredients

14 pound dried lima beans
salt
pepper

Directions

Cut squash in quarters or less, remove seeds and stringy por- tion; place in a dripping pan; bake two hours or until soft; remove from shell; mash and season with butter, salt, sugar and pepper.
Mrs. J. 0. Parmlee.
SUCCOTASH (STRING BEANS.)
String, wash and cut the beans in y^ inch pieces: place in stcAv pan of boiling water and boil until nearly tender, thirty or forty
VEGETABLES. 6i
minutes ; then add corn cut from the cob, % more corn than beans, and continue boiling slowly until both are tender at which time very little water should remain in the pan; season with butter salt and pepper, five minutes before serving.
Mrs. D wight Cowan.
SUCCOTASH (LIMA BEANS.)
14 pound dried lima beans; soak one hour in water; boil two hours (slowlv) ; add 1 can corn; season with salt, pepper and but- ter. " Mrs. R. S. Hall.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

114Calories

8 gProtein

0 gFat

21 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Lima Beans	1/2 cup (85g) cooked	108
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary society. [from old catalog]. 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.

Lima beans + peppertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together468 recipes

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

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