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Uma Bean Loaf

A loaf made from soaked lima beans, onion, carrot, rice, mustard, salt, ketchup, baked in a greased pan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,259 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Uma Bean Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the beans

  1. Soak the beans overnight in cold water, then drain.

  2. Cover the beans with boiling water.

  3. Add the onion, carrot, and rice.

  4. Cook until the beans are tender.

  5. Drain the mixture, reserving the water for soup stock.

  6. Pass the bean mixture through a meat chopper.

Mix and bake

  1. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.

  2. Pack into a greased bread pan.

  3. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

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. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  2. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,477 recipes

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

  4. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Mustard + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together599 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Dried lima beans
Provide the main body and protein-rich bulk that holds the loaf together.
Rice
Absorbs liquid and adds starch, helping the loaf set firm when baked.
Onion
Adds savory depth and moisture as it softens during cooking.
Carrot
Adds moisture and mild sweetness, and helps bind the mixture.

The step that matters

Pass the bean mixture through a meat chopper. Mashing the cooked beans finely lets them bind with the rice and other ingredients. Coarse pieces won't hold together, so the loaf can crumble when sliced.

Swap the lima beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, carrot, mustard, rice, ketchup):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Lima beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, carrot, mustard, rice, ketchup. 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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