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Broiled Breaded Beef

Broiled breaded beef served with horse-radish sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Horse and radish work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 529 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Broiled Breaded Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beef

  1. Cut the rare roast beef into pieces ½ inch thick.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt, black pepper, and onion juice if desired.

  3. Brush the beef with egg white and roll in soft bread crumbs.

Broil and make the sauce

  1. Place on a greased broiler and broil over a clear fire for five minutes.

  2. For the horse-radish sauce, mix grated horse-radish, vinegar, salt, and pepper thoroughly.

  3. Stir in the heavy cream beaten stiff.

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.

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. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  3. Beef + horsetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Onion + radishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together323 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).

  5. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Binds the bread crumbs to the beef so the coating stays on during broiling.
Soft bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating on the outside of the beef.
Heavy cream
Beaten stiff, it lightens and mellows the sharp horse-radish sauce.
Grated horse-radish
Provides the sharp, pungent flavour of the sauce.

The step that matters

Broil the breaded beef over a clear fire. Beef is already rare, so a short, very hot broil browns the crumb coating quickly while keeping the meat from overcooking. Leaving it too long dries the beef and can scorch the crumbs before the coating sets.

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, egg, bread, horse, radish, sauce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, egg, bread, horse, radish, sauce. 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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