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Boston Baked Beans II

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and molasses work together. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 468 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Boston Baked Beans II

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add 1 teaspoon of mustard to 3 tablespoons of molasses.

  2. Pour the mixture over the top of the baked beans.

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. Mustard + molassestop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together468 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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