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Cold Roast Round of Beef

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 330 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Cold Roast Round of Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve cold roast round of beef.

  2. Prepare and serve boiled potatoes.

  3. Arrange salads, pickles, or beetroot on the side.

  4. Serve plum pudding with sweet sauce.

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. Potato + beetroottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Beetroot + plumtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  4. Potato + plumtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methyl-1-butanol (fusel, malty).

  5. Beef + beetroottop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together301 recipes

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

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

Swap the plum

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Plumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, potato, beetroot, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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