Name: Escallopfd Corn
Ingredients: 1 can fine grained corn or 12 fresh ears of corn, grated; 2 tablespoons butter; 1 cup toasted bread crumbs; pepper to taste; coarse sea salt to taste; 1 cup sweet cream

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Escallopfd Corn

Ingredients

1 can fine grained corn or 12 fresh ears of corn, grated
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup toasted bread crumbs
pepper to taste
coarse sea salt to taste
1 cup sweet cream

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

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
Butter a baking pan.

Assemble

Layer the corn in the pan.
Sprinkle with toasted bread crumbs, pepper, and salt.
Add another layer of corn and top with more bread crumbs, butter, and seasoning.
Pour the sweet cream over the top.

Bake

Bake for about 20 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.

Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,324 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Corn + buttertop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,345 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,964 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Corn: Forms the bulk of the dish and provides its sweet, starchy base.
Sweet cream: Adds richness and moisture that softens the corn as it bakes.
Toasted bread crumbs: Soak up liquid and form a crisp, lightly browned top layer.
Butter: Adds fat and richness and helps the crumbs brown.

“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.