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Ladies Fingers or Kachang Bendi

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Okra and sauce work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 65 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Ladies Fingers or Kachang Bendi

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the ladies fingers well, then drop them into boiling salted water and cook until tender. Drain.

  2. For the marrow, peel and halve it, remove the seeds, and cut it into halves again.

  3. Add the marrow to boiling salted water; when done, lift and drain.

  4. Serve the marrow plain or with white sauce.

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 + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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