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Cucumber Stuffed

A cucumber hollowed and filled with a seasoned meat mixture, then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Cucumber Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cucumber

  1. Peel the cucumber and cut off the top.

  2. Scoop out the seeds.

Make and fill the stuffing

  1. Mix minced cold meat, bread crumbs, seasoning, and stock to moisten.

  2. For stuffing, use sausage meat or small kidneys flavored with onion and parsley.

  3. Fill the cucumber with the mixture and replace the top with egg white.

Bake

  1. Brush the outside with oiled butter and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

  2. Cook in a greased paper bag for 20 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cucumber + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,564 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,050 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Bread + eggtop 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

Egg white
Binds the replaced top so the stuffing stays enclosed while cooking.
Cold meat
Provides the savory filling body and flavor.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture from the stuffing and form a crisp, browned coating outside.
Oiled butter
Adds fat that helps the outside brown and stay moist.

The step that matters

Replace the top with egg white. The egg white acts as a seal; if the top is not closed well, the stuffing can leak out and dry or scorch during cooking.

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, bread, onion, parsley, egg, butter):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, bread, onion, parsley, egg, 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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