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Vegetable Marrow Fritters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Thyme and marjoram match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,225 recipes. Both carry terpineol, which smells pine, woody. The science ↓

Vegetable Marrow Fritters

Oven, in the book's wordsA brisk oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the marrows and remove the seeds.

  2. Stuff the marrows tightly with a mixture of equal parts of cold meats and sauce.

  3. Season the stuffing with salt, pepper, chopped parsley, sifted thyme, and marjoram.

  4. Let the stuffed marrows sit for a few hours.

  5. Cut the marrows into slices about ½ inch thick.

  6. Dip each slice in beaten egg, then coat with crushed water biscuits or bread crumbs.

  7. Fry the slices in hot fat or clarified butter until golden.

  8. Drain on a cloth, serve on paper or a folded napkin, and garnish with fried parsley.

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 + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,225 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  2. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  3. Parsley + marjoramtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,979 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Pepper + marjoramtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ham, sauce, pepper, parsley, marjoram, egg, biscuit):

  1. Capersfits about as well
  2. Thymethe original
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, sauce, pepper, parsley, marjoram, egg, biscuit. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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