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Baked Eggplant

A baked eggplant stuffed with a mixture of mashed eggplant, butter, pepper, salt, cream, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Baked Eggplant

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the eggplant until tender.

  2. Remove the inside and mash it with butter, pepper, salt, cream, and bread crumbs.

Stuff and bake

  1. If desired, add mushrooms to the stuffing.

  2. Stuff the eggplant with the mixture and bake until golden.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Eggplant + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggplant
Forms the shell and the soft, mild pulp that becomes the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the mashed filling and helps it brown.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness so the filling stays soft and creamy.
Bread crumbs
Absorbs liquid and gives the mashed filling body and structure.

Swap the eggplant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, cream, bread, mushroom, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Eggplantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, cream, bread, mushroom, 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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