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Roasted Green Corn

Roasted green corn is baked in butter until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,345 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Roasted Green Corn

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Remove the husks and silk from the corn.

  3. Brush the corn lightly with melted butter.

Roast and serve

  1. Place the corn on a grate in the oven.

  2. Turn the corn as it browns.

  3. Roast for 25 minutes.

  4. Serve immediately in a folded napkin.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ears of young green corn
Provides the main body and sweet flavor of the dish as it cooks.
Melted butter
Adds fat and moisture to the surface, helping it brown and taste rich.

The step that matters

Turn the corn as it browns. Sugars and starches on the kernels caramelize unevenly if one side sits against the heat. Turning lets browning develop evenly and prevents scorched patches.

“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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