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To Boil Greens

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

To Boil Greens

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring a large pot of soft water to a boil and add the salt.

  2. Add the greens to the boiling water and keep boiling uncovered until they sink to the bottom.

  3. Quickly remove the greens with a slotted spoon and place them in a colander to drain.

  4. Press the greens with a small plate to remove excess water.

  5. Transfer the greens to a dish, add a large piece of butter, and slice hard boiled eggs on top.

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.

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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. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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