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Brussels Sprouts in White Sauce

A simple dish of Brussels sprouts simmered in white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Brussels sprouts and sauce work together. They rank in the top 45% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5 recipes. The science ↓

Brussels Sprouts in White Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick over the Brussels sprouts and remove any wilted leaves.

  2. Soak the sprouts in cold water for 15 minutes.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook the sprouts in boiling salted water for 20 minutes, or until easily pierced with a skewer.

  2. Drain the sprouts and add 1 cup of white sauce for each pint of Brussels sprouts.

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. Brussels sprouts + saucetop 45% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Brussels sprouts
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender when boiled until easily pierced.
White sauce
Adds moisture and a creamy, rich coating to the cooked sprouts.

The step that matters

Cooking until easily pierced. Sprouts cooked too briefly stay firm and bitter, while overcooking makes them mushy and releases stronger sulfur aromas. Testing with a skewer helps you stop at the point of tenderness.

“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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