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Canned Corn Timbales

A baked corn timbale made with corn pulp, eggs, butter, sugar, breadcrumbs, and cayenne pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Canned Corn Timbales

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix corn pulp, egg yolks, salt, cayenne pepper, melted butter, sugar, and bread crumbs until well combined.

  2. Gently fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

Bake and serve

  1. Drop the mixture into well-buttered tin molds, filling them 2/3 full.

  2. Place the molds in a pan of hot water and bake for 20 minutes.

  3. Turn the timbales out onto a shallow dish to serve.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Add richness and help bind the custard-like mixture as it sets.
Egg whites
Whipped air lightens the mixture and helps it rise and set with a delicate texture.
Corn pulp
Provides the main body and sweet corn flavour of the timbales.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and add body so the mixture holds its shape when baked.
Melted butter
Adds fat for a tender texture and rich flavour.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Whipped egg whites trap air that makes the timbales light. Folding gently keeps that air in; stirring vigorously deflates the foam and leaves the timbales dense.

“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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