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Baked Squash, No. 1

Baked squash slices seasoned with salt, sugar, and butter, then baked until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98,233 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Baked Squash, No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Cut the squash into slices about ½ inch thick and pare them.

  3. Sprinkle the slices with a little coarse sea salt and sugar.

  4. Place tiny bits of butter over the slices.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a pan until tender.

  2. Serve in a vegetable dish.

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. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Summer squash
Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender and soft as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, helping the squash brown lightly and taste rounder as it bakes.
Sugar
Adds a touch of sweetness and helps the squash edges caramelize and brown.

The step that matters

Bake in a pan until tender. Squash can dry out or stay firm if baked unevenly or too briefly. Arranging the slices in a single layer and checking for tenderness with a fork helps them cook through while keeping moisture.

“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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