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Jalapeño-Corn-Beer Quick Bread Recipe

This quick bread recipe is flavored with yeasty beer, spicy pickled jalapeño peppers, and sweet corn kernels.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Beer and corn share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 61 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol, which smells smoky, clove. The science ↓

The recipe

1 (9-inch) loaf
Cook2 hr

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Brush a 9x5-inch loaf pan with some of the melted butter, reserving the rest for the batter.

  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar and fine salt.

  3. Pour in the pilsner and stir until mostly combined. Add the corn, chopped pickled jalapeños and remaining melted butter, then fold gently until no dry flour remains.

  4. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula.

  5. Bake for 55 to 65 minutes, until deep golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

  6. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn the loaf out onto a wire rack and cool for about 45 minutes before slicing.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Beer + corntop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  2. Corn + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,333 recipes

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

  3. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Beer + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together680 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Flour + corntop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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