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Leek Broth

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and leek work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 659 recipes. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Leek Broth

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the beef and leeks in a pot with the water.

  2. Boil until the mixture is reduced to 1 pint.

  3. Skim off any fat, then strain the broth.

  4. Take twice a day.

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. Beef + leektop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

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

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