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Sweet Corn in Cream with Cheese

A baked dish of fresh corn mixed with thick cream, seasoned, topped with cheese, and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 172 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-heptanol, which smells bitter, floral. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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

  1. Cut the corn from the ears.

  2. Moisten the corn with thick cream and season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  3. Fill a baking dish with the mixture.

Bake

  1. Cover the top with grated parmesan or cream cheese.

  2. Sprinkle with a little paprika.

  3. Bake at 300°F (150°C) 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Corn + cream cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  2. Corn + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cream + cream cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Cream + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together21,446 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Corn + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

Cream and pepper share little aroma chemistry, yet 21,446 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh corn
Provides the sweet, starchy base that forms the body of the dish.
Thick cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the corn tender as it bakes.
Parmesan or cream cheese
Melts and browns on top, adding savory flavor and a golden crust.

“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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