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Cobned Beef Hash

A savory hash of boiled corned beef, potatoes, onions, and butter, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cobned Beef Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the corned beef until tender and chop it finely.

  2. Chop the potatoes to be one-third more than the amount of meat.

Cook

  1. Slice the onions and brown them in butter until tender.

  2. Add the chopped meat and potatoes to the onions.

  3. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper, then add enough water to moisten.

  4. For extra flavor, add the chopped red pepper if desired.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  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

Corned beef
Provides the main savory meat base and most of the hash's flavor.
Potatoes
Add starchy body and bulk that holds the hash together as it cooks.
Onions
Browning in butter adds sweetness and a deeper savory flavor.
Butter
Adds fat for browning the onions and enriches the overall flavor.

The step that matters

Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper, then add enough water to moisten.. Adding water gradually keeps the mixture moist without making it soggy, since too much liquid stops the potatoes and meat from browning.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, potato, butter, pepper):

  1. Onionthe original
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Chivefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, potato, butter, pepper. 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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