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Baked Winter Squash

A roasted winter squash served with butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Winter squash and butter work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 95 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Baked Winter Squash

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderately hot oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Cut open the squash and remove the seeds.

  2. Cut the squash into large pieces without peeling.

  3. Place the pieces on a baking sheet.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for about 1 hour.

  2. Once done, peel the squash and mash it like mashed potatoes, or serve the pieces hot with butter.

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. Winter squash + buttertop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together95 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Winter squash
Provides the main body of the dish, becoming soft and sweet as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, carrying flavour when served over the hot squash.

The step that matters

Baking until fully tender. Squash must bake long enough for its starches to soften and sugars to concentrate. Underbaked flesh stays firm and bland, and it is hard to mash smoothly.

“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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