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Cracker Stuffing for Lamb

A cracker-based stuffing for boned leg of lamb, made with butter, poultry seasoning, parsley, onion juice, and boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,843 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Cracker Stuffing for Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Crush the crackers into coarse crumbs.

  2. Melt the butter in the boiling water.

  3. Slowly add the butter mixture to the crumbs while tossing them lightly with a fork.

  4. Sift in the poultry seasoning, then add the parsley and onion juice.

  5. Mix well and fill the boned leg of lamb.

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. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Melts into the crumbs to add fat and moisture, keeping the stuffing tender.
Poultry seasoning
Adds savory, aromatic flavor to the crumb base.
Parsley
Adds fresh, herbal aroma and a touch of color.

The step that matters

Slowly add the butter mixture to the crumbs. Adding the hot liquid gradually while tossing lets the crumbs absorb it evenly. Dumping it in at once can leave dry pockets and soggy clumps.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion. 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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