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Baked Egg Plant

A baked eggplant stuffed with a cream and butter mixture and topped with breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Baked Egg Plant

Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Egg Plant

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggplant

  1. Boil the eggplant in salted water until it can be pierced with a straw.

  2. Remove the eggplant, wipe it dry, and cut it in half.

  3. Scoop out the center and mash it finely.

Finish and bake

  1. Mix in butter, pepper, salt, and cream.

  2. Return the mixture to the eggplant shell, sprinkle with bread crumbs, and bake for 20 minutes.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Eggplant + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Eggplant + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together265 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggplant
Forms the soft, mashed base and the shell that holds the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the mash a smooth, savoury flavour.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the mashed filling soft and creamy.
Bread crumbs
Forms a crisp, browned topping during baking.

Swap the eggplant

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Eggplantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, cream, bread. 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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