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Stuffed Marrow

Stuffed marrow is bone marrow filled with a mixture of bread crumbs, bacon, liver, herbs, and milk, then boiled or steamed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,090 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Stuffed Marrow

Ingredients

Directions

Fill and tie

  1. Peel the marrow and fill it with stuffing.

  2. Tie the ends with tape to prevent slipping.

Cook

  1. Boil or steam the marrow until done.

  2. Parboil and finish in the oven.

Finish and serve

  1. Remove the tape before serving.

  2. Pour over sauce or gravy.

Make the stuffing

  1. Mix bread crumbs with bacon, liver, herbs, and milk for stuffing.

  2. For a vegetarian option, moisten bread crumbs with oil and season with herbs, salt, pepper, and garlic.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Bread + garlictop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together767 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Bread + livertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together731 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Marrow
Forms the edible shell that holds the stuffing and turns tender when cooked.
Bread crumbs
Provide the bulk and structure of the stuffing, soaking up fat and milk.
Bacon fat
Adds richness, moisture and savoury flavour to the stuffing.
Cooked liver
Contributes a deep, meaty flavour and a firmer texture to the stuffing.
Milk
Moistens the bread crumbs so the stuffing stays soft rather than dry.

The step that matters

Parboil and finish in the oven. Parboiling softens the marrow so the flesh cooks through, while the oven finish dries and browns the surface. Skipping either part risks a raw centre or a soggy, pale result.

Swap the garlic

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

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

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