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Stuffed Egg Plant

A baked eggplant stuffed with mashed eggplant, butter, salt, cheese or almonds, topped with buttered breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stuffed Egg Plant

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the eggplant

  1. Boil the eggplant until tender.

  2. Cut the eggplant in half and remove the insides, then mash them.

  3. Season the mashed eggplant with butter and salt.

  4. If desired, add grated cheese or finely chopped almonds.

Stuff and bake

  1. Spoon the mixture back into the eggplant shells.

  2. Top with buttered breadcrumbs.

  3. Bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven until browned.

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. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Eggplant + cheesetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together110 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Eggplant + buttertop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together507 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggplant
Forms the body of the filling and the shells that hold it.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the mashed filling and helps the top brown.
Grated cheese or chopped almonds
Adds body and flavour to the filling and gives an optional crunch or richness.
Buttered breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, browned topping in the oven.

The step that matters

Bake until browned. Baking at 350°F (175°C) until browned sets the filling and develops color and flavor on the crumb topping. Underbaking leaves the filling loose and the top pale.

Swap the eggplant

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Eggplantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cheese. 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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