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Roasted Spareribs

Roasted spareribs seasoned with salt, pepper, and turkey dressing, baked in a pan with water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and turkey are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,636 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Roasted Spareribs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the rough ends of the spareribs neatly.

  2. Crack the ribs across the middle.

  3. Rub the ribs with coarse sea salt and sprinkle with pepper.

  4. Fold the ribs over and stuff with turkey dressing.

  5. Sew the ribs tightly.

Roast

  1. Place in a dripping pan with 1 pint of water.

  2. Baste frequently, turning once to bake both sides until brown.

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. Pepper + turkeytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Spareribs
The main meat; slow roasting makes it tender while its surface browns.
Turkey dressing
Bread-based stuffing that soaks up juices and adds moisture and savory flavor inside the ribs.

The step that matters

Baste frequently, turning once. Basting spreads the pan liquid over the surface, keeping it moist while it cooks. Turning once lets both sides brown evenly through the Maillard reaction, which needs a dry, hot surface.

“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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