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Fried Vegetable Marrow

Sliced marrow coated in egg and breadcrumbs, fried and baked, served with parsley and brown sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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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 ↓

Fried Vegetable Marrow

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and cut the marrow into slices ¾ inch thick.

  2. Let the slices drain for 15 minutes.

  3. Season both sides with pepper and coarse sea salt.

Coat and cook

  1. Brush each slice with egg and sift bread crumbs over them.

  2. Fry in butter until light brown on both sides.

  3. Cook in a tin in the oven until done.

Serve

  1. Serve on a drainer with crisped parsley and brown sauce.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  3. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Marrow
Forms the main body of the dish, cooking to a tender interior inside its crisp coating.
Egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumbs adhere to the marrow slices.
Bread crumbs
Form a golden, crisp coating that browns during frying.
Butter
Conducts heat for frying and adds richness and browning to the crumb coating.

The step that matters

Fry in butter until light brown on both sides. Medium heat browns the crumb coating through Maillard reaction while the marrow heats through. Too much heat burns the butter and crumbs before the slices are cooked.

“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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