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Dried Beans with Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,184 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dried Beans with Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Moisten the cooked and drained beans with the sauce.

  2. Cook the beans in the sauce for 30 minutes.

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. Beans + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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