Why it works: Hops and cream work together. They rank in the top 43% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3 recipes. The science ↓
Boiled Hops with Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the hops stems like asparagus until tender.
Serve with Cream or Hollandaise sauce.
When cold, mix with other vegetables for a salad.
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.
-
Hops + creamtop 43% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together3 recipes
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
You might also like
The free Flavor Lab newsletter: one surprising pairing a week and the molecular reason it works, in 60 seconds. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Prefer an account? Create a free account to save pairings and unlock the full chemistry.
Tomato Soup526 recipes
Brown Bread461 recipes
Mutton Broth292 recipes
Yorkshire Pudding264 recipes