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Green Bean Pudding

A pudding made from boiled green beans, cream, egg yolks, pepper, salt, and parsley sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Green Bean Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the green beans until tender.

  2. Peel and mash the beans until smooth, adding a little pepper and salt.

Make the pudding

  1. Mix in the cream and beaten egg yolks.

  2. Boil in a basin for 1 hour.

Serve

  1. Serve with parsley sauce poured over it.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Green beans + parsleytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Green beans + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together369 recipes

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

  5. Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Green beans
Form the main body of the pudding once cooked and mashed smooth.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, giving the pudding a softer, smoother texture.
Egg yolks
Bind the mash and set with heat, holding the pudding together as it cooks.

The step that matters

Boil in a basin for 1 hour. Egg yolks set as they heat, so the pudding needs steady, gentle cooking. Boiling too hard or too long can make it tough, grainy, or watery.

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, egg, pepper, parsley, sauce):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, egg, pepper, parsley, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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