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Haricot Bean Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,713 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Haricot Bean Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the haricots for 6 to 8 hours.

  2. Boil the haricots until tender, then let them cool.

  3. Place the cooled haricots in the center of a salad bowl.

  4. Surround the haricots with shredded tomato, beetroot, and celery.

  5. Cover the salad with whipped cream seasoned with salt and pepper.

  6. Optionally, dip the haricots in oil and vinegar before adding the cream.

  7. Decorate the cream with a sprinkle of cayenne pepper.

  8. Arrange the beetroot to create a red border around the white cream.

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 + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Beans + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together215 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Beans + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

Swap the beetroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, tomato, celery, cream, pepper, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Beetrootthe original

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

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