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Baked Squash

A baked squash stuffed with a coconut and breadcrumb mixture, seasoned with mint, sage, and vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Baked Squash

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the squash

  1. Wash, cut the squash in half, clean, and trim.

Make the filling

  1. Prepare the filling by mixing bread crumbs and ground coconut.

  2. Grind the green peppers, onions, and celery.

  3. Add mint, sage, and salt to the mixture.

  4. Beat the eggs and mix with milk.

  5. Combine the egg-milk mixture with the filling.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the squash halves with the mixture.

  2. Place in a 350°F (175°C) oven for at least 1 hour until tender.

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 + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + sagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

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

  4. Mint + sagetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together138 recipes

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

  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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the filling together and help it set as it bakes.
Fresh bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and give the filling body and structure.
Milk
Adds moisture to the filling so it stays tender when baked.
Ground coconut
Adds fat and flavor, and moisture to the stuffing.
Soft-shell squash
Serves as the edible shell that holds and cooks the filling.

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, pepper, onion, celery, mint, sage, egg):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pepper, onion, celery, mint, sage, egg. 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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