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Stuffed Marrow

Stuffed marrow with bread crumbs, bacon, liver, herbs, and optional garlic, boiled or steamed and served with onion or egg sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Stuffed Marrow

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Prepare the marrow by removing the ends and hollowing it out.

  2. Mix bread crumbs with cooked bacon and liver, season with herbs, and moisten with milk.

  3. For a vegetarian option, mix bread crumbs with oil, herbs, salt, pepper, and garlic.

Stuff and cook

  1. Stuff the marrow with the filling and tie it securely with tape.

  2. Boil or steam the stuffed marrow until done, or parboil and finish in the oven at 350°F (175°C).

Serve

  1. Remove the tape before serving and pour over Onion Sauce or Egg 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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Liver + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,420 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread crumbs
Absorb the moisture and bind the filling so it holds its shape inside the marrow.
Bacon
Adds fat and savory flavor that enriches the filling as it cooks.
Liver
Contributes richness and a deeper, savory flavor to the stuffing.
Milk
Moistens the bread crumbs so the filling stays soft rather than dry.

The step that matters

Securing the stuffed marrow before cooking. If the tape is loose or the marrow is overfilled, the filling can leak or expand and escape during boiling, steaming, or baking. Tying it firmly keeps the filling contained while the heat sets it.

Swap the garlic

The recipe marks garlic as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, liver, milk, pepper, onion):

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Sagefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, liver, milk, pepper, onion. 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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