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Creamed Peas

A simple side dish of peas cooked with white sauce and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,147 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Creamed Peas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Drain the can of peas and rinse thoroughly with cold water.

Make it

  1. In a saucepan, combine the peas, white sauce, and sugar. Bring to a boil.

  2. Remove from heat and let stand in a warm place until serving.

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. Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Peas + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,109 recipes
  3. Peas + sugartop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,928 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Peas
Provide the main body and sweet, mild flavor of the dish.
White sauce
Adds creamy moisture and coats the peas, giving the dish its texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the savory white sauce.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil. Heating the white sauce with the peas brings the mixture up to temperature evenly. Bringing it to a boil ensures it is hot enough before standing, while stirring helps prevent the starchy sauce from scorching on the bottom of the pan.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sugar):

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sugar. 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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