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Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,713 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The Dewey Cook Book

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put a quart of milk in the double boiler, thicken with large tablespoonful of corn starch dissolved in a little of the milk. Stir and boil ten minutes. Add a heap- ing tablespoonful of butter, salt and cayenne pepper to taste. Do not put the two mixtures together until ready to serve.

  2. MRS. HENRY COLTON.

  3. Spanish Bean Soup.

  4. Soak one pint of Black Spanish beans (called Mock Turtle beans) over night. Next day boil them three hours in two quarts of water, with half a pound of salt pork, or what is better, veal or beef, part fat and part lean. Add half a head of celery and a little cayenne; boil a half hour longer, put through a colander, add a little powdered clove and serve with slices of lemon.

  5. MISS M. D. WHITE.

  6. Clam Chowder.

  7. 2 slices salt pork, fried to a crisp. 6 medium sized potatoes.

  8. 3 onions. I pint of clams. 2 quarts water. cup butter.

  9. i pint milk or cream. Salt and pepper to taste.

  10. Chop the onions and potatoes until very fine, add the water and let them boil slowly for three quarters of an hour. Chop the clams and pork, add the pork fat and clam juice, and put this mixture in the water with the potatoes and onions. Let this boil half an hour ; add four finely rolled crackers, and lastly add the butter, milk or cream and the salt and pepper. Do not boil after the milk has been added.

  11. MRS. H. J. ANDREWS.

  12. Corn Chowder.

  13. Fry in butter or pork fat in a deep kettle, two sliced onions ; when tender add eight potatoes sliced thin, sea- son well with salt and pepper, cover with hot water and cook for a few minntes. Then add the corn, cut and scraped from eight good sized ears ; add more water and boil half an hour. Now add one quart of boiling milk, two tablespoonfuls of butter rubbed smooth with a tablespoonful of flour, add further seasoning and allow the chowder to boil up twice.

  14. » MISS LUCY BRADSHAW.

  15. Corn Soup.

  16. One dozen ears of corn grated. Boil in one quart of milk twenty minutes. Rub together one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour, add pepper and salt, and stir into the soup before taking from the fire.

  17. MRS. BOARDMAN .

  18. Corn Soup.

  19. i can sweet corn. i quart boiling water.

  20. 'in one tablespoonful 2 eggs.

  21. flour. Pepper and salt.

  22. Drain the corn and chop very fine, put in a double boiler, pour on it the boiling water, and cook steadily for one hour ; rub through a colander to take out all the husks. Return it to the fire, season with salt and pepper and boil gently for three minutes, then stir in the butter and flour. Have ready the boiling milk,

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1355Calories
65 gProtein
42 gFat
182 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot in our table0
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 Young Men's Christian Association (Montpelier, Vt.). Women of the Auxiliary. 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. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Beans + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  5. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, pork, milk, butter, tomato, flour, potato):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits about as well
  3. Cuminfits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, pork, milk, butter, tomato, flour, potato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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