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Stuffed Cucumbers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Stuffed Cucumbers

Why it works: Cucumber and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,409 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffed Cucumbers

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut an eighth or quarter from each cucumber and scoop out the inside.

  2. Chop the cucumber flesh and tomato into small bits.

  3. Mix the chopped cucumber and tomato with salad dressing.

  4. Return the mixture to the cucumber shells.

  5. Place each stuffed cucumber on a plate with a lettuce leaf.

  6. Decorate with small round balls of cream cheese.

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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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. Cucumber + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

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

  2. Cucumber + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

  3. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  4. Cucumber + cream cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  5. Lettuce + cream cheesetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, lettuce, cream cheese):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, lettuce, cream cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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