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Baked Sweet Pumpkin

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Pumpkin and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,933 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Baked Sweet Pumpkin

Oven, in the book's wordsA very hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a very hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Cut the pumpkin into slices.

  2. Place the slices in a baking pan with the rind side down.

  3. Remove all seeds and scrape a little below the seeds.

  4. Place lumps of butter over each piece.

  5. Bake in a very hot oven at 400°F (200°C).

  6. Serve in the rind or scoop out into a dish.

  7. Serve while very hot.

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. Pumpkin + buttertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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