Why it works: Sugar and corn are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,168 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Green Corn, Canned
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the corn
Select young sugar corn that is in the milk.
Husk and silk the corn, removing any blemishes.
Cut the corn off the cob and scrape out the remaining milk from the cob.
Can and process
Fill cans with the corn and the milk, adding 1 teaspoon of salt for each pint of corn.
Seal the cans tightly and place them in a large boiler with enough cold water to cover them.
Boil the cans slowly for 2 hours.
Remove the cans and puncture a small hole in the top of each can to release steam.
Quickly reseal the cans and return them to the boiler, boiling for an additional 2 hours.
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.
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Sugar + corntop 21% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together7,168 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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What each ingredient does
- Young sugar corn
- Provides the sweet kernels and milky juice that make up the canned contents.
- Coarse sea salt
- Seasons the corn and adds flavour to the canned kernels.
The step that matters
Puncture a small hole in each can to release steam. Steam trapped inside a sealed can builds pressure during long boiling, which can deform or burst the can. Venting lets steam escape before the cans are resealed for the second boil.
“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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