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Meat Substitutes

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,470 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Meat Substitutes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop hard-boiled eggs and mix with French dressing.

  2. Combine cream cheese with chopped nuts.

  3. Season baked beans with lemon juice and mash to a paste.

  4. Chop stewed oysters and mix with white bread.

  5. Chop olives and serve with white bread.

  6. Prepare two kinds of sandwiches: one with meat, eggs, or cream cheese, and the other with a sweet mixture.

  7. Beat butter until soft and creamy, do not melt.

  8. Season corned beef or chopped ham with mustard.

  9. Season roast beef or boiled tongue with Harvey sauce, Worcestershire sauce, or horseradish.

  10. Season lamb with capers, tomato sauce, catsup, or chopped mint.

  11. Season chicken or veal with chopped celery, celery salt, or chopped pimentos.

  12. Combine fish with onion juice, parsley, and chives.

  13. Mix nuts, cheese, eggs, mayonnaise, celery, cress, cucumbers, tomatoes, and olives with meat and vegetables for delicious sandwiches.

  14. If sandwiches need to stand for a while, pack in a stone jar and cover with a cloth wrung out of cold water.

  15. When ready to pack for lunch, wrap in oiled paper, keeping different foods separated.

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. Beans + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Beans + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Bread + oystertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,545 recipes

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

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream cheese, bread, beans, lemon, oyster, olive):

  1. Peasfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Lima beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream cheese, bread, beans, lemon, oyster, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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