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String Beans

Preserved string beans packed in jars and cooked like tomatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and cheese work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 741 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

String Beans

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak string beans in cold salt water for 15 minutes.

  2. Restring beans if necessary and decide to break or keep them whole.

  3. Tie beans in a cheesecloth bag.

  4. Scald the bag in boiling water for 5 minutes.

  5. Plunge the bag into cold water to handle.

Pack and seal

  1. Pack jars tightly with beans and fill with clear cold water.

  2. Put on rubbers, seal well, and cook like tomatoes for 55 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. Beans + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together741 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

String beans
Provide the main vegetable, which softens and becomes tender during the long cooking in the jar.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the soaking water, lightly flavouring the beans before they are packed.

The step that matters

Seal well and cook for 55 minutes. A proper seal keeps air and microbes out of the jar, and the full processing time ensures the beans are heated through so they keep safely at room temperature.

“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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