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Vegetable Marrow Stuffed

A vegetable marrow cavity filled with veal forcemeat, boiled and served with melted butter sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Vegetable Marrow Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Peel the marrow and cut it in half lengthwise.

  2. Remove the seeds from the marrow.

  3. Prepare the veal forcemeat.

  4. Heat the veal forcemeat in a saucepan.

  5. Fill the marrow with the hot forcemeat.

  6. Reassemble the marrow halves.

  7. Bind the marrow with kitchen twine.

Cook and serve

  1. In a large pot, bring water seasoned with salt to a boil.

  2. Place the marrow on a drainer.

  3. Lower the marrow into the boiling water.

  4. Boil gently for about 25 minutes.

  5. Carefully transfer the marrow to a dish.

  6. Pour melted butter sauce over it.

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. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Veal + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,381 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Veal + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Vegetable marrow
Forms the edible shell that holds the filling and turns soft and tender when simmered.
Veal forcemeat
Provides the savory meaty filling and body that fills the hollowed marrow.
Melted butter sauce
Adds moisture and richness, coating the marrow with fat and flavor.

The step that matters

Boil gently for about 25 minutes. A rapid boil can split or break the soft marrow apart, while a gentle simmer cooks the marrow and the hot forcemeat through evenly while keeping the shape intact.

“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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