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Baked Beans

Beans cooked with salt pork and seasoning, baked until browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,000 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beans

  1. Soak the beans overnight in cold water.

  2. Drain the beans.

  3. Add twice as much fresh water as there are beans.

  4. Add a piece of salt pork.

  5. Boil for 15 minutes.

Slow cook

  1. Set the kettle into a larger one containing boiling water.

  2. Pack the kettle in the cooker for 3 hours.

  3. Remove the kettle from the cooker.

  4. Boil again.

  5. Add seasoning during the second heating.

  6. Put the kettle in the cooker for 3 hours longer.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the contents into a baking dish.

  2. Brown in the oven.

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 + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Beans
Form the bulk of the dish and, once softened by soaking and long cooking, give it its body.
Salt pork
Adds fat and savoury flavour that seasons the beans during the long cooking.

“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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