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Stuffing for Heart and Many Other Purposes

A savory stuffing made with grated bread, suet or marrow, herbs, lemon juice, eggs, and optional oysters or ham.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Stuffing for Heart and Many Other Purposes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stuffing

  1. In a bowl, combine grated bread and chopped suet or marrow.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, nutmeg, parsley, thyme, marjoram, vervain, winter savory, and lemon juice.

  3. Mix in the beaten eggs until well combined.

  4. For added flavor, fold in chopped oysters or ham if desired.

Use and garnish

  1. Use this stuffing for turkey, mixing in an equal amount of parboiled sausage meat.

  2. Reserve ½ pound of the mixture, add an egg, form into balls, and fry for garnish.

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. Thyme + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Thyme + winter savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together780 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Marjoram + winter savorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together455 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated bread
Forms the bulk of the stuffing and soaks up moisture and flavor.
Suet or marrow
Adds fat that keeps the stuffing moist and rich as it cooks.
Eggs
Bind the stuffing together and help it set when cooked.
Oysters or ham
Add savory, salty flavor if included.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, beef, pepper, parsley, thyme, marjoram, winter savory):

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, beef, pepper, parsley, thyme, marjoram, winter savory. 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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