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Bullock's Heart Stuffed

A stuffed bullock heart filled with bread crumbs, onions, sage, egg, and seasoned with pepper and salt, baked with potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Charles Elme Francatelli · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Bullock's Heart Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stuffing

  1. Chop finely four onions and twelve sage leaves.

  2. Put the onions and sage into a saucepan with a bit of fat or butter, and fry them for a few minutes over the fire.

  3. Add eight ounces of bread crumbs, soaked in milk or water, pepper, and salt, and stir the stuffing over the fire for a few minutes.

  4. Add one egg.

Stuff and bake

  1. Put the stuffing inside the bullock's heart.

  2. Place a round of greased paper over the stuffing and fasten it with four wooden twigs.

  3. Place the stuffed heart on an iron trivet in a baking dish.

  4. Add peeled potatoes, two ounces of dripping or butter, and half a pint of water to the dish.

  5. Season well with pepper and salt.

  6. While baking, frequently baste the heart with the fat from the dish.

  7. If you have no oven, send it to the baker's.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

585Calories
21 gProtein
7 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Drippingnot in our table0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Charles Elme Francatelli. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Onion + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the stuffing bulk and a soft, moist body.
Egg
Binds the stuffing so it holds together when cooked and sliced.
Onions
Add sweetness and savoury depth when fried gently in fat.
Dripping
Adds fat for flavour and helps the heart brown and stay moist while baking.
Bullock's heart (in the method)
Lean, dense meat that is the main body of the dish and needs slow moist baking.

The step that matters

Frequently baste the heart with the fat from the dish. Basting spreads melted fat over the meat's surface, helping it brown and stay moist during a long bake, since lean heart muscle dries out easily.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, egg, sage, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, egg, sage, pepper. 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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