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To Boil Vegetables Green

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and mint are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,559 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

To Boil Vegetables Green

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil.

  2. Add the vegetables and boil them rapidly without covering the pot.

  3. Watch the vegetables; they are done when they begin to sink.

  4. Remove them immediately to preserve their color.

  5. If using hard water, add 1 teaspoon of salt of wormwood to the boiling water before adding the vegetables.

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 + minttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,559 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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