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Capon, Stuffed and Roasted

A capon stuffed with chosen filling, seasoned, buttered, and roasted until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85,593 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Capon, Stuffed and Roasted

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

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Prepare the stuffing and fill the capon.

  3. Season the outside of the capon with coarse sea salt and pepper.

Roast and serve

  1. Place the capon in a roasting pan and dot with butter.

  2. Roast the capon for a longer time than a fowl, until fully cooked.

  3. Let it rest before carving.

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. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Capon
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender and juicy when roasted through.
Butter
Adds fat that enriches flavor and promotes browning on the skin.

The step that matters

Roast until fully cooked. Capons are large, and the stuffing and thick meat slow heat transfer, so the bird can look done outside while the centre and stuffing stay undercooked. Checking that the thickest parts reach a safe internal temperature prevents this.

“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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