I'm currently hosting a cooking challenge on another cooking forum (whispers of traitor) for which I set the theme as 'stuffed'. Then the question arose: what counts as a stuffing? Seems easy but the more I think about it the less I'm able to answer precisely.
For example - one might assume that stuffing referred to something tightly packed into something else (like stuffing in a chicken). I think this is further complicated by the fact that in the US such as stuffing is called a 'dressing'? Is that right?
Anyway - if you consider something like a stuffed vine leaf - is it really tightly packed? What is the difference between that and, say, the filling in a spring roll - we wouldn't call spring rolls 'stuffed'.
Any ideas on an accurate culinary definition of 'stuffed'?
For example - one might assume that stuffing referred to something tightly packed into something else (like stuffing in a chicken). I think this is further complicated by the fact that in the US such as stuffing is called a 'dressing'? Is that right?
Anyway - if you consider something like a stuffed vine leaf - is it really tightly packed? What is the difference between that and, say, the filling in a spring roll - we wouldn't call spring rolls 'stuffed'.
Any ideas on an accurate culinary definition of 'stuffed'?