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Vegetable Marrow Rissoles

A baked vegetable marrow stuffed with seasoned minced beef and topped with tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,448 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Vegetable Marrow Rissoles

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Pare the marrows very thin and cut them across each end. Scoop out the seeds from the marrows.

Fill and bake

  1. Fill the center of each marrow with well-seasoned minced beef.

  2. Place the filled marrows in a baking pan and bake until they are a nice brown.

Serve

  1. Serve with tomato sauce poured over the marrows.

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. Beef + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,448 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Beef + saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,650 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Vegetable marrows
Form the hollow shell that holds the filling and cooks until tender.
Minced beef
Provides the savory, rich filling that cooks through inside the marrow.
Tomato sauce
Adds moisture and acidity to balance the rich beef and mild marrow.

The step that matters

Bake until nicely browned. Marrow is mild and watery, so the oven must brown the surface and cook the minced beef through. Too short a bake leaves the filling underdone, while too long dries the marrow out.

“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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