Name: Green Peas
Ingredients: 2 cups fresh green peas; ½ teaspoon coarse sea salt; ½ cup rich milk

Why it works: Peas and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,309 recipes. Both carry hexanal, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

Green Peas

Ingredients

2 cups fresh green peas
½ teaspoon coarse sea salt
½ cup rich milk

Directions

Shell the peas and put them into boiling water.
Cook for 5 minutes.
Drain the peas and season with rich milk and salt.

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.

Peas + milktop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,309 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh green peas: Form the main body of the dish, providing sweetness and a tender texture when cooked.
Rich milk: Adds moisture and richness, softening the flavour of the cooked peas.

“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.