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Stuffed Squash

A baked dish of Italian squash filled with finely chopped beef, milk, bread crumbs, and margarine or oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Stuffed Squash

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the beef very finely and mix with dressing.

  2. Moisten the mixture with milk.

Stuff and bake

  1. Cut the squash lengthwise and remove the seeds.

  2. Fill the squash shells with the forcemeat.

  3. Sprinkle bread crumbs on top and dot with margarine or oil.

  4. Bake in a moderate oven (350°F / 175°C) until the squash is tender and the top is browned.

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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Beef + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef
Provides the savoury meat filling that makes up the body of the stuffing.
Milk
Moistens the forcemeat so it stays tender and juicy during baking.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping that browns in the oven.
Margarine or oil
Adds fat that helps the crumb topping brown evenly.

The step that matters

Bake until the squash is tender and the top is browned. Squash shells need enough time for the flesh to soften fully, while the crumbs need dry heat to brown. Pulling the dish early leaves the squash firm and the topping pale.

“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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