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Large Hominy

Large hominy boiled for a day, then served with butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85,593 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Large Hominy

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the hominy

  1. Combine 1 pint of hominy with 1 gallon of water in a pot.

  2. Cook slowly for an entire day, stirring gently after the first 2-3 hours.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, heat a pan and add a little butter.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper, then serve.

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. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 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

Hominy
Provides the main body of the dish, softening during slow cooking into a tender, starchy base.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour and giving a smooth mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Cook slowly and stir gently. Slow cooking softens the hominy evenly, while gentle stirring avoids breaking the kernels apart and prevents scorching on the bottom of the pot.

“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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