Name: Puree of Haricot Beans K LA Conde
Ingredients: red haricot beans; slices of fried bread; coarse sea salt; water

Why it works: Beans and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 332 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Puree of Haricot Beans K LA Conde

Ingredients

red haricot beans
slices of fried bread
coarse sea salt
water

Directions

Make a purée of red haricot beans in the same manner as a purée of white haricot beans.
Put some slices of fried bread in a soup tureen.
Pour the purée over the fried bread.

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.

Beans + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together332 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Brown Bread461 recipes

White Bread80 recipes

Bread Omelette60 recipes

Oatmeal Bread51 recipes

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Puree of Haricot Beans K LA Conde