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Cucumber Farci

Stuffed cucumber blocks filled with sausage meat, simmered in stock, topped with cheese and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and cheese work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 564 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Cucumber Farci

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Peel the cucumber and cut it into 1-inch blocks.

  2. Remove the core and fill each block with sausage meat.

  3. Simmer gently in the stock until cooked.

Serve

  1. Serve on a hot dish, sprinkle cheese over the top, and pour gravy or diabetic sauce around.

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. Meat + cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together564 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Cheese + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,987 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cucumber + cheesetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together411 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Cucumber + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,174 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Meat + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,167 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Cucumber
Forms the edible shell that holds the filling while it simmers.
Sausage meat
Provides the savoury filling that cooks inside each cucumber block.
Cheese
Melts or softens over the top, adding richness and flavour.

The step that matters

Simmer gently in the stock until cooked. Gentle simmering cooks the sausage meat through and keeps the cucumber from turning mushy. A hard boil can break the cucumber apart and leave the filling undercooked or tough.

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, cheese, sauce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, cheese, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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