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Stuffed Winter Squash

A winter squash stuffed with bread crumbs, onion, garlic, parsley, and a sauce of oil, flour, and consommé, baked until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Evora Bucknum Perkins · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Stuffed Winter Squash

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut ½‑⅔ of a medium sized, nice shaped winter squash in two in the middle, or a little above the middle as required.

  2. Scrape out the seeds and stringy pulp and rub with salt. Let stand while preparing other ingredients; drain before stuffing.

Make the stuffing

  1. Heat oil or melted butter, add flour, then consommé, and salt if necessary.

  2. Mix crumbs and flavorings, leaving out a little parsley; pour part or all of the sauce over the crumb mixture.

  3. Coarse chopped nuts may be added to the dressing.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the squash, sprinkle with crumbs or corn meal, and chopped parsley.

  2. Set into covered baker or cover with waxed paper and bake until squash is tender, about 2‑3 hours.

  3. Garnish the top of the squash with halves of nuts after baking.

  4. Serve on chop tray and send plain onion sauce to be served with it.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

623Calories
14 gProtein
15 gFat
106 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 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
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot 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 Evora Bucknum Perkins. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

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

  3. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Winter squash (in the method)
Forms the edible shell that holds the stuffing and becomes tender when baked.
Dry bread crumbs
Absorb the sauce and provide the body and texture of the stuffing.
Rich consommé
Supplies liquid and savory flavor that moistens the crumb stuffing as it bakes.
Flour (in the method)
Thickens the fat and consommé mixture into a smooth sauce.

The step that matters

Drain the salted squash before stuffing. Salting draws out water; if the squash is not drained, excess liquid thins the sauce and makes the stuffing soggy.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, onion, garlic):

  1. Cuminfits about as well
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Capersfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, onion, garlic. 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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