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Stuffed Mangoes

A dish of veal mixed with sauce, stuffed into mangoes, topped with breadcrumbs and butter or egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,585 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Stuffed Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the veal until tender, seasoning with thyme, bay leaf, onion, salt, and pepper.

  2. Run the cooked veal through a meat chopper.

  3. In a saucepan, melt the butter, then mix in the flour until smooth.

  4. Add the milk to the butter and flour mixture, stirring until the sauce is smooth.

  5. Combine the chopped meat with the sauce.

Stuff and cook

  1. Cut off the small end of the mangoes and hollow them out, leaving seeds if desired.

  2. Fill the mangoes with the meat mixture.

  3. Place the stuffed mangoes in a pan with a little hot water at the bottom and cook for 30 minutes or more.

  4. If using mangoes as cases, simply heat the meat mixture through.

  5. Top with bread crumbs and bits of butter or beaten egg whites.

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. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + mangotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Thyme + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal
Forms the main filling and provides the savory, meaty body of the dish.
Butter
Enriches the sauce and adds richness to the filling and the topping.
Flour
Thickens the milk with the butter into a smooth sauce that binds the meat.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the sauce, adding moisture and creaminess to the filling.
Green mangoes
Serve as the edible cases, adding a tart, fruity flavour that contrasts the meat.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping when baked over the filling.

The step that matters

Cook the stuffed mangoes in hot water. Gentle, moist heat in the pan cooks the filling through and softens the mango without drying the sauce. Too little water or too high heat can scorch the bottom or dry out the meat.

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, thyme, onion, pepper, butter, flour, milk):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Cherryfits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, thyme, onion, pepper, butter, flour, milk. 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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