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Banbury Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,536 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Banbury Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cream the butter in a bowl until smooth.

  2. Mix in the moist sugar, flour, candied orange peel, candied lemon peel, currants, ground cinnamon, and allspice.

  3. In another bowl, combine the crumbled cake and biscuits with chopped apples, mixed spices, a little butter, and sugar.

  4. Add the lemon juice and rind, or essence of lemon, to the mixture.

  5. Moisten the mixture with thin raspberry jam or raw treacle to your taste.

  6. Press the mixture into a jar and store for later use.

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. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Orange + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Orange + allspicetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together727 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Lemon + allspicetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sugar, flour, orange, lemon, cinnamon, allspice):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sugar, flour, orange, lemon, cinnamon, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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