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Pea Slices

A fried dish made from pureed peas mixed with onion, bread, eggs, and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Pea Slices

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peas

  1. Soak the dried green peas in cold water overnight.

  2. Boil the peas until tender, then pass them through a sieve.

Make the mixture

  1. In a pan, heat the butter and sauté the chopped onion until soft.

  2. Mix the onion, white bread pieces, and beaten eggs into the pea puree.

  3. Spread the mixture in a pan.

  4. Cover with bread crumbs.

Fry

  1. Fry in a mixture of Ko-nut and butter until golden brown.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Peas + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  3. Peas + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Dried green peas
Form the main body of the slices once cooked and pureed.
Eggs
Bind the pea puree so it holds together when set and fried.
White bread
Adds body and absorbs moisture, helping the mixture firm up.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating on the outside during frying.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the surface brown in the frying fat.

The step that matters

Pass the peas through a sieve after boiling. Peas must be fully tender and passed smooth so the puree has no lumps. Lumps or skins make the mixture grainy and weaken how well it binds and slices.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, bread, butter, egg):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, bread, butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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