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Stuffed Egg Plant

A baked dish of eggplant halves filled with a seasoned bread crumb and eggplant mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stuffed Egg Plant

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the eggplant in half lengthwise and scoop out the inside, leaving a ½ inch shell.

  2. Chop the scooped‑out eggplant finely and mix it with the bread crumbs.

  3. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and sugar.

  4. Cook the mixture in butter in a hot frying pan for about 10 minutes, stirring to prevent burning.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the eggplant shells with the mixture and bake in a 400 °F (200 °C) oven for 30 minutes.

  2. Serve in the shells.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Eggplant + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Eggplant + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together265 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 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
Provides the bulk of the filling and its soft, moist flesh once cooked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture from the eggplant and help the filling hold together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps the mixture brown in the hot pan.
Sugar
Adds a little sweetness that balances the bitterness of the eggplant.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture in butter in a hot frying pan. Stirring keeps the bread crumbs and eggplant from scorching while moisture cooks off, so the filling browns lightly rather than burning or staying wet.

Swap the eggplant

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Eggplantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pepper, sugar, butter. 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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