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Boiled Vegetables

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and cauliflower share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 36 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Boiled Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash green vegetables thoroughly. Soak in cold water for some time before cooking.

  2. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil.

  3. Add the vegetables and cook rapidly, uncovered, until tender.

  4. For new potatoes, boil as soon as they are peeled.

  5. For old potatoes, soak in cold water for 1 hour before cooking.

  6. Boil potatoes and cauliflower slowly until tender.

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. Potato + cauliflowertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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