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Cream of Green Pea Sauce

A creamy sauce made with cream sauce and cooked green peas, served with fried chicken or meat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cream of Green Pea Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, combine the Cream Sauce and cooked green peas.

  2. Heat gently until warmed through.

  3. Serve with fried chicken or croquettes of mutton, lamb, chicken, lobster, or salmon.

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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sauce + peastop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,109 recipes
  3. Cream + peastop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream sauce
Forms the smooth, creamy base that carries the peas and sets the sauce's body.
Green peas
Add sweetness, a vegetal flavor, and a green color to the sauce.

The step that matters

Heat gently until warmed through. Cream-based sauces can curdle, separate, or scorch when boiled or overheated. Gentle heat keeps the cream smooth and evenly warmed while the peas hold their texture.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sauce):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Cashew nutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sauce. 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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