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Vegetable Marrow

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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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 ↓

Vegetable Marrow

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather young vegetable marrows when they are the size of a large egg.

  2. Boil the marrows in salted boiling water for 15 minutes and serve whole.

  3. For cold serving, drizzle with oil and vinegar.

  4. If marrows are not young, peel them and remove the seeds, cutting as little as possible.

  5. Cook and eat the entire marrow once cut to prevent mildew.

  6. Mash the marrows or steam and cut into fillets.

  7. Fry the fillets in batter or bake in layers with grated cheese and melted butter.

  8. For a French style, cut marrows in half, scoop out seeds, sprinkle with salt, and drain water.

  9. Fry each half in oil and fill with a stuffing of breadcrumbs, parsley, and onion moistened with broth or milk.

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

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

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  5. Vinegar + cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, vinegar, cheese, butter, onion, milk):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, vinegar, cheese, butter, onion, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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