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A simple oven-baked dish of green peas seasoned with salt, mint, and water, cooked in a butter‑greased paper bag.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Green Peas

Why it works: Peas and mint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,137 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Green Peas

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Shell the green peas.

  2. Grease a quart-sized paper bag with butter.

Bake

  1. Add the peas, salt, mint, and water to the bag.

  2. Fold the ends of the bag carefully and clip tightly.

  3. Place the bag on a grid shelf in a 350°F (175°C) oven.

  4. Cook for about 35 minutes.

Serve

  1. To serve, slit open the bag and pour the peas onto a hot dish.

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. Peas + minttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Peas + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,887 recipes

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

  3. Mint + buttertop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,559 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peas
Form the main body of the dish, softening as they cook in trapped steam.
Water
Provides the steam that cooks the peas inside the sealed bag.
Butter
Greases the bag so the paper does not stick to the peas.

The step that matters

Fold and clip the bag tightly. A tight seal traps steam so the peas cook gently in their own moisture. A loose or leaky bag lets steam escape, so the peas may dry out or cook unevenly.

“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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