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Bread Stuffing

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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Bread Stuffing

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat drippings or trimmings from salt pork in a pot.

  2. Brown the outside of the meat with the sliced onions and carrot.

  3. Half cover with boiling water and let simmer until tender.

  4. Garnish with boiled onions, seasoned, basted with butter, and browned in a hot oven.

  5. Skim the fat from the cooking liquid, thicken with flour and water, and strain.

  6. Add white stock and tomato pulp, then simmer the fowl until tender, adding more stock if needed.

  7. Arrange the meat joints in a circle on a serving dish.

  8. Add tarragon vinegar and seasonings to the sauce, then reheat with the cooked macaroni.

  9. Fill the center of the circle with the macaroni mixture.

  10. Garnish with celery leaves or parsley.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Tarragon + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together456 recipes

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

  3. Carrot + tarragontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together463 recipes

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

  4. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, carrot, butter, tarragon, vinegar, celery):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Turnipfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, carrot, butter, tarragon, vinegar, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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