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To Preserve Green Corn for Boiling

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and meat work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 414 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

To Preserve Green Corn for Boiling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Harvest the corn when it's ready to eat.

  2. Remove the husk and silk, then replace the husk.

  3. Pack the corn into a barrel.

  4. Pour strong pickle over the corn and add a weight to keep it submerged.

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. Corn + meattop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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