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Macaroni Timbale

A baked macaroni dish with meat, breadcrumbs, and sauce, served with cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Macaroni Timbale

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix the bread crumbs and meat or vegetables together well.

  2. Add the stock, Worcestershire sauce, and mushroom catsup, and mix well.

  3. Add the beaten egg and combine thoroughly.

Mold and steam

  1. Grease a plain pudding mold.

  2. Line the mold with boiled macaroni.

  3. Fill the mold with the mixture.

  4. Press it in compactly.

  5. Cover the mold with its lid and secure the lid.

  6. Place the mold in a kettle with boiling water to cover it about two-thirds.

  7. Cover the kettle and boil for one hour.

Serve

  1. Turn it out from the mold.

  2. Pour cream sauce around it.

  3. Serve.

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.

Explore the science

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 + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  3. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes
  5. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Leftover meat
Supplies the main savory filling and most of the flavor.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help bind the filling so it holds its shape.
Egg
Binds the filling and sets as it steams, holding the timbale together.
Macaroni
Lines the mold, forming a shell that surrounds the filling.

The step that matters

Press the filling in compactly. Packing the mixture firmly removes air pockets. The egg sets during steaming, but a loose filling can crumble when the timbale is turned out of the mold.

“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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