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Creamed Peas

A dish of lima beans and corn simmered with butter, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lima beans and corn work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 222 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Creamed Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beans

  1. Soak the lima beans overnight.

  2. Boil the beans until tender.

  3. Drain the beans and cool them with cold water.

  4. Remove the skins.

Cook and season

  1. Boil the beans again in water to cover for about 30 minutes.

  2. Add the can of corn.

  3. Season with butter, pepper, and salt.

  4. Boil slowly for a few minutes longer.

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. Lima beans + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together222 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Lima beans + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Lima beans + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together468 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lima beans
Form the creamy body of the dish and provide its starchy, tender texture.
Corn
Adds sweetness and small bursts of texture to the mixture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, rounded flavour.

Swap the lima beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, butter, pepper):

  1. Beansfits about as well
  2. Lima beansthe original
  3. Almondfits less well
  4. Walnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, butter, pepper. 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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