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To Boil -windsor Beans

Fresh Windsor beans boiled with salt and served with butter or bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,799 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

To Boil -windsor Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Shell the beans just before cooking.

  2. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the beans and cook until tender, about 20 to 30 minutes.

  2. Drain the beans in a colander.

  3. Serve immediately with melted butter or topped with boiled bacon if desired.

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. Beans + buttertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,799 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh windsor beans
Main ingredient; cooking softens its starches so the beans become tender.
Butter
Adds richness and flavour through fat when melted over the hot beans.

The step that matters

Cooking until tender. Heat softens the starches in the beans gradually. Undercooked beans stay firm and chalky, while overcooked beans turn mushy, so check doneness with a bite rather than relying only on the clock.

“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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