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Stuffed Cucumbers

Stuffed cucumbers baked with butter, onion, herbs, apple, breadcrumbs, egg, and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Stuffed Cucumbers

Why it works: Cucumber and mint work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 884 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Stuffed Cucumbers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and stuff

  1. Pare the cucumbers and remove the seed centers.

  2. Fill the cucumbers with stuffing and bind the halves together with tape.

Steam

  1. Steam the cucumbers until tender, then remove all tapes except one in the middle.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the cucumbers in a baking dish and brush with egg.

  2. Sprinkle fine bread crumbs on top and brown in the oven.

  3. Serve in a long dish with brown gravy.

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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Explore the science

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. Cucumber + minttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together884 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 recipes

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

  4. Mint + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,372 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

What each ingredient does

Cucumbers
Form the main body and, when steamed, turn tender and moist around the stuffing.
Bread crumbs
Make up the stuffing and form a crisp, browned topping in the oven.
Egg
Brushed on before baking, it helps the crumb topping stick and encourages browning.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps the surface brown.
Onion
Adds savory aroma and flavor to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Steam until just tender. Cucumber is mostly water and softens quickly with heat. Overcooking makes it limp and watery, so it can collapse and lose the shape needed to hold the stuffing.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, butter, onion, mint, bread, egg, pepper):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, butter, onion, mint, bread, egg, pepper. 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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