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Baked Stuffed Heart

A baked beef heart stuffed with diced potatoes and turnips, served with canned corn, pickled eggs, custard, and peach tapioca pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 938 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Baked Stuffed Heart

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. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

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

  2. Clean the beef heart and stuff it with a mixture of diced potatoes and turnips.

  3. Place the stuffed heart in a baking dish.

  4. Add canned corn around the heart.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for 1.5 to 2 hours until cooked through.

  2. Serve with pickled eggs, custard, and peach tapioca pudding.

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. Potato + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Potato + turniptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together562 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Beef + corntop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,028 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Corn + peachtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef heart
Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender and cooked through during baking.
Potatoes
Fill the cavity and add starch that softens into a moist, mild filling.
Turnips
Fill the cavity and add a mildly sweet, earthy flavour as they cook.
Pickled eggs
Add a sharp, acidic contrast to the rich, savoury meat.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, potato, turnip, corn, egg):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, potato, turnip, corn, egg. 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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