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Succotash From Dried Samp and Beans

Succotash made from dried samp and Lima beans, seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lima beans and butter work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 414 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Succotash From Dried Samp and Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the samp and beans overnight in cold water, in separate bowls.

  2. In the morning, boil the samp as directed in the recipe for stewed hominy.

  3. In another saucepan, boil the beans in fresh cold water until tender but not broken.

  4. Keep the beans hot without boiling until the samp is done.

Combine and serve

  1. When both are tender, drain them nearly dry and combine them in a saucepan.

  2. Season with salt and pepper, add butter, and heat through.

  3. Serve the succotash 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. Lima beans + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Lima beans + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together468 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 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

Dried samp
Provides the chewy, starchy base that gives succotash its body.
Dried lima beans
Add tender texture and a creamy bite alongside the samp.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth fat coating to the finished dish.

The step that matters

Keep the beans hot without boiling until the samp is done. Continued boiling can break down the beans' skins and make them mushy, so holding them just below a boil keeps them intact until serving.

Swap the lima beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, butter):

  1. Walnutfits about as well
  2. Black-eyed peafits about as well
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Lima beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, butter. 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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