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Vegetable Marrows, Fried

Slices of boiled zucchini coated in egg and breadcrumbs, then fried until lightly browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Vegetable Marrows, Fried

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the marrows until tender but firm.

  2. Let them cool, then cut into slices.

Bread and fry

  1. Brush the slices with egg.

  2. Dip the slices in bread crumbs.

  3. Fry in hot oil until lightly browned.

  4. Serve 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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Vegetable marrows
Form the main body of the dish once boiled and sliced.
Egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs stick to the slices.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns when fried in hot oil.

The step that matters

Fry in hot oil until lightly browned. If the oil is not hot enough, the coating absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisp. Frying until lightly browned sets the crumb coating and keeps the slices from soaking up excess oil.

“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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