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Sweet-corn with Cocoanut Milk

A simple dish of sweet corn simmered with coconut milk and a little salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 306 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Sweet-corn with Cocoanut Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the corn in the inner part of a double boiler.

  2. Add the coconut milk and a little salt.

  3. Put the inner part into the outer part filled with boiling water.

  4. Cook for 30 minutes.

  5. Serve hot.

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. Corn + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Coconut + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,648 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Corn
Provides the sweet base and the main body of the dish.
Coconut milk
Adds moisture and richness, giving the corn a creamy texture as it cooks.

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, milk):

  1. Vanillafits about as well
  2. Coconutthe original
  3. Figfits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, milk. 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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