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Corn Timbales

A baked corn and cracker crumb mixture shaped in timbale molds, served with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and parsley work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 943 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Corn Timbales

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Beat the eggs until light.

  2. Add salt, oil, cracker crumbs, and grated corn; mix well.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into oiled timbale molds dusted with parsley.

  2. Place the molds in a baking pan filled with boiling water.

  3. Cover with oiled paper and bake for 20 minutes.

  4. Serve with tomato sauce.

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.

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.

  1. Corn + parsleytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together943 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Egg + corntop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the timbales into a firm, sliceable custard as they bake.
Green corn
Provides the main body, sweetness and moisture of the timbales.
Cracker crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the mixture body so it holds together.

The step that matters

Bake the molds in a water bath. Setting the molds in boiling water surrounds the custard with gentle, even heat. This keeps the eggs from overcooking and turning rubbery or curdled at the edges.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Dillfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, corn. 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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