Why it works: Corn and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,484 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Baked Cokn
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 300°F (150°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare the corn as you would for fried corn.
Place the corn in a baking dish.
Bake in a slow oven at 300°F (150°C) for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Whip the egg white separately and stir it in just before serving.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Corn + eggtop 26% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7,484 recipes
Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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