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Baked Beans

A baked bean dish with navy or kidney beans and streaked salt pork, simmered then baked until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Kidney beans and pork work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 218 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the beans overnight.

  2. In the morning, boil the beans in cold water until soft.

  3. Half an hour before they are done, add the piece of pork.

  4. Once the beans are soft, drain them and place in a bake dish with the pork.

Bake and brown

  1. Score the rind of the pork, cover the dish, and bake for one hour.

  2. Remove the cover and brown the top.

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.

Explore the science

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. Kidney beans + porktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together218 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Navy or kidney beans
Form the bulk of the dish and become tender and creamy when cooked until soft.
Streaked salt pork
Adds fat and savory flavor that seasons the beans as they cook and bake.

The step that matters

Cook the beans until soft before baking. Baking mainly deepens flavor and browns the top. Beans that are still firm when they go into the dish will stay firm, so they must be fully tender first.

“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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