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Dutch Pudding

A boiled beef neck pudding thickened with sifted meal, seasoned with salt, pepper, and sage.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Dutch Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the meat

  1. Boil the beef neck until tender and bones come out easily.

  2. Remove the beef, let it cool, and then shred it into pieces.

  3. Skim the grease from the cooking liquid and pour it into another vessel.

  4. Return the meat and liquid to the cleaned kettle.

Thicken and set

  1. Bring to a boil and thicken with sifted meal until it resembles mush.

  2. Cook while stirring constantly to prevent scorching.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, and sage.

  4. Pour into pans or crocks and let cool.

  5. Once cold, slice and fry until browned like sausage.

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. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  3. Beef + sagetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together847 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sifted meal
Thickens the cooking liquid into a mush that sets as it cools.
Piece of beef neck
Provides the shredded meat and rich flavor that form the body of the pudding.

The step that matters

Cook while stirring constantly. Thickened mixtures containing starch and meal settle on the bottom of the pot and scorch easily when heated, so constant stirring keeps the mush smooth and prevents burnt flavor.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Rosemaryfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, 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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