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Cold Beef Hashed with Vinegar

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Allspice and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,874 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Cold Beef Hashed with Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the steak or boiled shin meat into pieces about ½ inch square.

  2. Season the meat with Cayenne pepper and coarse sea salt to taste.

  3. In a pot, heat enough vinegar to cover the meat.

  4. Add a few grains of whole allspice and a couple of cloves to the vinegar and bring to a boil.

  5. Pour the hot vinegar mixture over the meat and let it cool.

  6. Serve as a dish for supper or luncheon.

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. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Pepper + allspicetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Vinegar + allspicetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  5. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the clove

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

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Clovethe original
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, pepper, vinegar, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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