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Puree of Green Peas

A hot puree made from green peas, cream, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Puree of Green Peas

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the green peas until tender.

  2. Stir in the cream and butter one minute before serving.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Peas + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,887 recipes

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

  3. Peas + creamtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peas
Provide the main body and vegetal flavour of the puree once cooked and blended.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture to the puree.
Butter
Adds fat for a glossy finish and rounder, richer flavour.

The step that matters

Stirring in the cream and butter one minute before serving. Fat emulsifies into the hot puree when stirred briefly; overheating or overmixing can split the cream and dull its smooth texture.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, butter):

  1. Filbertfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Pecansfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, butter. 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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