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Puree of Vegetable Marrow

A creamy puree made from vegetable marrows, onions, stock, and cream, served with fried croutons.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Puree of Vegetable Marrow

Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Puree of Vegetable Marrow

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Pare, quarter, and remove the pith and seeds from the vegetable marrows.

Cook the puree

  1. Melt the butter and add the sliced onion. Fry for 5 minutes.

  2. Add the vegetable marrows, white stock or milk, salt, and sugar. Simmer until tender.

  3. Drain the vegetables. Pass them through a fine sieve.

  4. Incorporate the pureed vegetables with the stock or milk they were simmered in.

  5. Stir in the heavy cream.

  6. Adjust seasoning to taste.

Serve

  1. Serve with fried croutons.

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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Explore the science

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Vegetable marrows
Provide the main body and bulk of the puree once cooked and sieved.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying the flavour of the softened onion.
Onion
Sweetens and builds savoury aroma as it fries gently in butter.
White stock or milk
Supplies liquid to simmer the marrow until tender and thin the puree.
Heavy cream
Adds fat and a smooth, velvety texture to the finished puree.

The step that matters

Pass the vegetables through a fine sieve. Sieving breaks down fibres and removes any remaining stringy or seedy bits, which is what gives the puree a smooth texture. Drain well first so excess liquid does not make the puree thin.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, milk, sugar, cream):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Sweet potatofits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, milk, sugar, cream. 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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