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Cucumbers Forced

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and meat work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 323 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Cucumbers Forced

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the cucumbers evenly and cut off the ends.

  2. Scoop out the seeds with a small turnip scoop.

  3. Fill the cucumbers with forced meat.

  4. Place them in a pot with a little good stock.

  5. Simmer gently until tender.

  6. Remove the cucumbers from the pot with a slotted spoon and place on a dish.

  7. Glaze the cucumbers.

  8. Reduce the cooking liquid until it thickens to a glaze.

  9. Add a little butter to the glaze and heat it.

  10. Pour the glaze over the cucumbers and garnish with paste.

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. Cucumber + meattop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together323 recipes

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

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

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