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Roast Sparerib

A roasted pork sparerib stuffed with turkey meat, seasoned with salt and pepper, baked in water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and meat work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 540 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Roast Sparerib

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the rough ends of the spareribs neatly.

  2. Crack the ribs across the middle.

  3. Rub the ribs with coarse sea salt and sprinkle with pepper.

Stuff and sew

  1. Fold the ribs over and stuff with turkey meat.

  2. Sew up the ribs tightly.

Roast

  1. Place in a roasting pan with 1 pint of water.

  2. Baste frequently and turn over once to bake both sides evenly until rich 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. Turkey + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Pepper + turkeytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Pepper + meattop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Spareribs
Form the main body of the dish, cooking into tender meat over the long bake.
Turkey meat
Fills the folded ribs, adding moisture and savoury flavour to the stuffing.
Water
Sits in the roasting pan, creating steam that keeps the meat from drying out.

The step that matters

Baste frequently and turn once. Basting keeps the surface moist while turning the ribs lets both sides brown evenly. Skipping either can leave the meat dry or unevenly coloured.

“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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