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Meat Preparations

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 24 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and fish are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,668 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Meat Preparations

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare soluble meat with milk or use salted meat broths.

  2. Soak Zwieback, dry breadcrumbs, or cracker crumbs in milk.

  3. After 3-4 weeks, if pain decreases, add milk toast and very lightly cooked eggs.

  4. Include sweetbreads, scraped meats, boiled or broiled chicken, mutton, or fish in moderation.

  5. Thicken chicken broth with arrowroot, rice, or vermicelli.

  6. Add yolk of egg to thickened soups.

  7. Serve with crumbled dry toast and carefully prepared potato puree.

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. Bread + fishtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Meat + fishtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together479 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Bread + muttontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,488 recipes

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

  5. Meat + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the arrowroot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, milk, bread, egg, chicken, mutton, fish):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Arrowrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, milk, bread, egg, chicken, mutton, fish. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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