Name: Steing-beans
Ingredients: green beans; cold water; salt pork; salt

Why it works: Green beans and pork work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 93 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Steing-beans

Ingredients

green beans
cold water
salt pork
salt

Directions

Trim the ends of the green beans and break them into small pieces.
Soak the beans in cold water until ready to use.
Cook the beans in cold water; once boiling, drain and add boiling water and a piece of salt pork.
Cook for one hour, season to taste, and serve hot.

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.

Green beans + porktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together93 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