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Dried Green Beans in the Shell

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and lemon work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 61 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Dried Green Beans in the Shell

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dry small green beans in the shell during autumn for winter use.

  2. Soak the beans overnight in cold water.

  3. Boil the soaked beans in fresh water until tender.

  4. Add water as needed, then season with coarse sea salt and lemon juice to taste.

  5. Let the mixture boil together for a while.

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. Green beans + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together61 recipes

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

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

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