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Agar Peptone Meat Jelly

Ensure all equipment is sterilized to prevent contamination.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Agar and beef work together. They rank in the top 40% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Agar Peptone Meat Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the agar into small pieces and soak in strong brine for one day.

  2. Remove dirt and wash the agar thoroughly, then drain off the water.

  3. In a pot, combine the agar with 1 liter of water and the beef.

  4. Add peptone and salt to the mixture.

  5. Boil the mixture for a prolonged period until properly filtered.

  6. Sterilize test tubes or flasks before transferring the fluid.

  7. Use a sterilized pipette to fill the vessels, then seal and sterilize for 10-15 minutes over three days.

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. Agar + beeftop 40% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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