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To Fry Okra and Corn

A fried dish of okra and corn cooked in pork grease.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Okra and corn work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 161 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

To Fry Okra and Corn

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fry the pickled pork in a pan until cooked, then remove it, leaving the grease in the pan.

  2. Add the sliced okra to the pan and fry for 10 minutes.

  3. Stir in the cut corn and continue frying until everything is thoroughly cooked.

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. Okra + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together161 recipes

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

  2. Okra + flourtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Okra + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together727 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Corn + porktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,069 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Okra
Provides the main vegetable body and a slightly viscous texture when fried.
Corn
Adds sweetness and tender kernels that brown lightly in the pan.
Pickled pork
Adds salty, savory flavor and fat that is left in the pan for frying.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness to the dish.

Swap the okra

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, milk, flour, pork, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Okrathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, milk, flour, pork, pepper. 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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