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Stewed Kidney Beans

Stewed kidney beans simmered until tender, seasoned with salt and finished with nut butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Kidney beans and butter work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 186 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Stewed Kidney Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Wash the kidney beans well.

  2. Place the beans in a pot with cold water.

  3. Cook slowly for three hours or until perfectly tender.

Season and serve

  1. When nearly done, add salt to taste.

  2. Just before serving, flavor with nut butter.

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. Kidney beans + buttertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together186 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

Kidney beans
Form the main body of the stew and set its firm, tender texture as they cook slowly.
Nut butter
Adds richness and a creamy, fat-based body along with a nutty aroma.

The step that matters

Cook the dry beans until fully tender. Dry kidney beans contain a natural toxin that is destroyed only by thorough cooking, so they must be cooked through. Test for tenderness rather than relying on the clock alone, since bean texture varies.

“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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