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Smoked-Beef Broth

A broth made by simmering smoked beef with water and milk, then strained and seasoned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,759 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Smoked-Beef Broth

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Place the beef in a double boiler and cover it with cold water.

  2. Heat slowly without boiling for one hour.

  3. Add the pint of milk that has been simmered in another vessel.

  4. Remove from heat immediately.

Finish and serve

  1. Strain and season to taste.

  2. If cooled, rewarm in a double boiler without boiling.

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 + milktop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

What each ingredient does

Chipped beef
Releases its meaty, smoky flavor into the water to give the broth its character.
Sweet milk
Adds richness and a creamy, mellow body to the broth.

The step that matters

Heat slowly without boiling. Boiling makes the beef tough and can cause the milk to scorch, curdle or separate. Gentle heat in a double boiler extracts flavor from the beef while keeping the milk smooth.

“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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