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Stuffing for Poultry

Bread crumb stuffing for poultry made with butter, onions, liver, heart, salt, poultry seasoning, pepper, and optional hot water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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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 ↓

Stuffing for Poultry

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Melt the butter in a pan.

  2. Add the chopped onions and sauté until soft.

Mix the stuffing

  1. In a bowl, combine the bread crumbs, chopped liver, chopped heart, salt, poultry seasoning, and pepper. Mix in the sautéed onions.

  2. If a moist stuffing is desired, add hot water to the mixture until desired consistency is reached.

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.

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. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Onion + livertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,420 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Onion + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Form the bulk of the stuffing and absorb the butter and liquid to hold its body.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour through the bread crumbs.
Onions
Add sweetness and aroma once softened in the butter.
Chopped liver
Adds savoury depth and a rich, meaty flavour to the stuffing.
Chopped heart
Adds meaty texture and savoury depth to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Adding hot water. Hot water softens the dry bread crumbs and spreads moisture evenly. Adding too much makes the stuffing soggy and dense, so add it gradually until the desired consistency is reached.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Potatofits about as well

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