Why it works: Wort and butter work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓
Buttered Wortes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the wortes by cleaning and cutting them into pieces.
Boil the wortes in salted water until tender.
Drain the wortes and return them to the pot.
Add butter to the wortes and stir until melted and well combined.
Serve warm.
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.
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Wort + buttertop 29% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).
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