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Stuffing for Fowls

A savory bread-based stuffing for fowls, cooked with stock, butter, onion, celery, thyme, parsley, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Mary Ronald · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 13 ingredients
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Stuffing for Fowls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the crumbs

  1. Moisten a cupful of bread-crumbs with a tablespoonful of melted butter.

  2. Season the bread-crumbs highly with salt, pepper, thyme, chopped parsley, and onion juice.

Make the stuffing

  1. Put a tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan and fry one minced onion in it.

  2. Add one cupful of soaked bread, pressing out the water.

  3. Add one half cupful of stock.

  4. Add one teaspoonful of salt.

  5. Add one half teaspoonful each of pepper and thyme.

  6. Add one half cupful of celery cut into small pieces.

  7. Stir until it leaves the sides of the pan.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

618Calories
15 gProtein
13 gFat
109 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Mary Ronald. 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.

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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 + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Celery + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,193 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Soaked bread
Forms the moist body of the stuffing, absorbing liquid and giving it a soft texture.
Bread-crumbs
Absorb the melted butter and seasonings, giving the stuffing a dry, crumbly base.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavor from the frying onion through the mixture.
Onion
Adds savory aroma and depth when fried in butter.
Stock
Adds moisture and savory flavor to bind the bread together.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, pepper, celery, butter, thyme, parsley):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pepper, celery, butter, thyme, parsley. 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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