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Baked Pumpkin

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Parmesan cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,163 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Baked Pumpkin

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Arrange slices of peeled pumpkin in a buttered pan.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and moisten with roast meat gravy.

  3. Bake and baste until done.

  4. Alternatively, bake plain slices without peeling and serve like baked potatoes.

  5. For a different method, steam slices for ten minutes, then place in a buttered pan.

  6. Season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, and bake until done and glazy.

  7. Serve immediately.

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. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,163 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Meat + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,594 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Pumpkin + parmesan cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together347 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Meat + parmesan cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together269 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Pumpkin + buttertop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

Swap the pumpkin

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

  1. Grapefits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, parmesan cheese, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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