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Chestnut Stuffing

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Chestnut Stuffing

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 ↓

Chestnut Stuffing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Shell the chestnuts and place them in boiling water until the thin skin can be easily removed.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the chestnuts with 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of water, a little vinegar, and ½ cup of butter. Boil until the chestnuts are nearly soft.

  3. Chop the liver of the fowl finely with the parsley and onion.

  4. Mix the chopped liver mixture into the bread crumbs, seasoned with sugar, salt, and pepper.

  5. Stir in the melted butter gradually and add the chestnuts.

  6. Beat the egg yolks with a little milk and add to the mixture. If too thick, thin it with the liquid from boiling the chestnuts.

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. Chestnut + parsleytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

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

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

  5. Chestnut + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together696 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chestnut, bread, butter, egg, parsley, sugar, milk):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chestnut, bread, butter, egg, parsley, sugar, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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