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Vegetable and Corned Beef Hash with Fried Egg

A hash of corned beef and cabbage topped with a fried egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 872 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Vegetable and Corned Beef Hash with Fried Egg

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the corned beef and cabbage into small pieces.

Cook and serve

  1. In a skillet, melt the oleo over medium heat.

  2. Add the corned beef and cabbage, cooking until heated through.

  3. Serve the hash topped with a fried egg.

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 + cabbagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together872 recipes

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

  2. Beef + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cabbage + eggtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,391 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Corned beef
Provides the savory, salty meaty base of the hash.
Cabbage
Adds bulk and moisture, and turns mildly sweet as it cooks.
Oleo
Fat that conducts heat in the skillet and adds richness to the hash.
Egg
Topping whose runny yolk adds richness and moisture to the hash.

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, egg. 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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