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Bean Gelatine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lima beans and beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 156 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Bean Gelatine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the beans like pea gelatine, with or without flavoring.

  2. Choose Lima or horse beans in summer, small white beans in fall, and red, brown, or black beans in cold weather.

  3. Serve the gelatine plain with toast or zwieback and butter, cream, or nut preparations.

  4. Use black toast or crusts for better combination with lima and white beans.

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. Lima beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Horse + beanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Lima beans + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Beans + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,799 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the lima beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horse, beans, butter, cream):

  1. Lima beansthe original
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits less well
  4. Walnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against horse, beans, butter, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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