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Raw Meat Sandwiches

A sandwich made with finely chopped raw meat mixed with breadcrumbs, sugar, salt, and pepper, spread between buttered bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Raw Meat Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the meat

  1. Finely chop the meat and pass it through a sieve.

  2. Pound the meat in a mortar until it forms a paste.

Assemble the sandwich

  1. Mix the meat paste with bread crumbs, sugar, salt, and pepper.

  2. Spread the mixture between thin slices of bread and butter.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Beef + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Raw beef or mutton
Forms the main filling; pounding it into a paste gives the sandwich its smooth, spreadable texture.
Very fine bread crumbs
Absorb moisture from the meat and help bind the paste so it holds together.
Sugar
Adds a touch of sweetness that balances the savoury meat.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and softens the bread against the meat paste.

The step that matters

Pounding the meat to a paste. Raw meat must be finely chopped and worked until smooth so the texture is even and the paste binds well with the crumbs. Coarse pieces stay chewy and can make the filling fall apart when spread.

“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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