Why it works: Beef and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓
Warm Dishes for Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Broil the beef steak until cooked to your liking.
Fry the pork tenderloins in a skillet until golden brown.
Fry the pig’s feet until crispy.
Fry the oysters until golden and cooked through.
Fry the clams until they are tender.
Fry the liver and bacon together until the liver is cooked.
Fry the chops until browned and cooked through.
Fry the ham until heated and slightly crispy.
Fry the eggs to your preferred style.
Bread and fry the veal cutlets until golden.
Cook the sausages until browned and cooked through.
Fry the tripe until tender.
Fry the kidneys until cooked through.
Prepare corned beef hash by frying corned beef with potatoes until crispy.
Make codfish balls by mixing codfish with potatoes, then frying until golden.
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.
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Beef + porktop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,690 recipes
Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).
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Liver + vealtop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together392 recipes
Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).
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Pork + livertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,606 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
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Pork + clamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together305 recipes
Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
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Pork + vealtop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,930 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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