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Stewed Carrots

A simple dish of carrots simmered in salted water and finished with butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Stewed Carrots

Why it works: Carrot and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,083 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Stewed Carrots

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash, scrape, and slice the carrots thinly.

  2. Place the carrots in a saucepan and cover with salted water.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil slowly until tender, then drain.

  2. Add butter to taste and serve hot.

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. Carrot + buttertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,083 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Carrots
Form the main body of the dish and, once softened, supply its tender texture and sweetness.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, fatty mouthfeel to the cooked carrots.

The step that matters

Boil slowly until tender. Slow simmering softens the carrot's fibrous cell walls evenly without breaking the slices apart. Boiling too hard can break up the pieces and leave them unevenly cooked, so check for tenderness before draining.

“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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