Name: Lima Beans with White Sauce
Ingredients: Lima beans; white sauce; chopped parsley

Why it works: Lima beans and parsley work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 126 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Lima Beans with White Sauce

Ingredients

Lima beans
white sauce
chopped parsley

Directions

Cook the Lima beans as directed in the previous recipe.
Drain the beans and return them to the saucepan.
Stir in a good amount of white sauce and a little chopped parsley.
Simmer for three minutes and serve.

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.

Lima beans + parsleytop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together126 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Sauce + parsleytop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together6,693 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Lima beans + saucetop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together50 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).