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Marrow Toast

Marrow Toast is a dish of bone marrow served on bread or buttered toast, seasoned with pepper, coarse sea salt, parsley, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Marrow Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the marrow

  1. Saw beef bones into short pieces and cover ends with a flour and water paste.

  2. Boil the bones in a floured cloth for about 2 hours.

  3. Remove the marrow from the bones and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the seasoned marrow on fried bread or hot buttered toast cut into fancy shapes.

  2. Place in the oven until hot and serve immediately.

  3. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and add a dash of lemon juice before serving.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  5. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef bones
Provide the rich marrow that forms the dish's main body and flavour.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich, fatty marrow.

The step that matters

Boil the bones in a floured cloth for about 2 hours. Marrow must be heated long enough to soften and loosen from the bone without the bone breaking apart. Sealing the ends with flour paste and wrapping in a floured cloth helps protect the bones and keeps the marrow from leaking out during cooking.

“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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