Name: Louisiana Green Pea Regipe
Ingredients: 2 cups green peas; 1 tablespoon butter; 2 tablespoons cream

Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Louisiana Green Pea Regipe

Ingredients

2 cups green peas
1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons cream

Directions

Prepare

Wash the peas and place them in a clean skillet.

Cook

Cover and steam over medium heat for 30 minutes.
If the peas are not soft, continue cooking until tender.

Finish and serve

Add the butter and cream just before serving.

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.

Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Peas + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,887 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Peas + creamtop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,400 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peas: Form the main body of the dish and soften into a tender texture when steamed.
Butter: Adds richness and a smooth mouthfeel to the finished peas.
Cream: Adds richness and a silky, creamy texture to the peas.