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A mixed vegetable and fruit dinner featuring cream of corn soup, stuffed tomatoes, rice, cauliflower, string beans, and peach pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Lima beans and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 156 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Prepare cream of corn soup.

  2. Cook lima beans until tender.

  3. Hollow out tomatoes and stuff them.

  4. Boil rice until cooked.

  5. Steam cauliflower and serve with cream sauce.

  6. Cook string beans until tender.

  7. Drizzle French dressing over vegetables.

Serve with sides and dessert

  1. Serve wafers and cheese on the side.

  2. Make peach pudding and serve with hard sauce.

  3. Brew coffee.

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. Lima beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Tomato + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  3. Cauliflower + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together290 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Corn + beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,211 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Corn + lima beanstop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together222 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Lima beans
Provide starchy body and a tender, creamy texture when cooked.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity to the stuffing.
Boiled rice
Adds bulk and a soft, starchy base to the plate.
Cauliflower
Provides the main tender vegetable base, softened by steaming.
String beans
Add tender body and a fresh vegetable flavour.
Peach
Adds sweetness and fruity aroma to the pudding.

Swap the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, corn, lima beans, tomato, rice, sauce, beans):

  1. Okrafits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, corn, lima beans, tomato, rice, sauce, beans. 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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