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Hash D LA Provencale

A savory hash of beef, mutton, pork, bacon, and vegetables cooked slowly into a crown shape.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Hash D LA Provencale

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince the beef, mutton, and pork, and mix with bacon, parsley, onion, thyme, and pepper.

  2. Mold the mixture into a crown shape in a stewpan.

  3. Make a hole in the center of the crown with your fingers.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook slowly for 2 hours.

  2. Halfway through, add the sliced potatoes and optional vegetables.

  3. Remove excess fat before serving, placing vegetables around the crown.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Beef + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Onion + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lean beef
Provides the main meaty body and substance of the hash.
Mutton
Adds richer, more intense meat flavor to the mixture.
Fresh pork
Adds moisture and fat that keep the slowly cooked meat tender.
Bacon
Adds smoky, salty fat that flavors the meat as it renders.
Potatoes
Absorb cooking juices and add starch that thickens and fills the dish.

The step that matters

Remove excess fat before serving. Rendered fat pools on the surface during long slow cooking. Skimming it off keeps the dish from tasting greasy while the meat and potatoes stay moist.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, mutton, pork, parsley, thyme, pepper, potato):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, mutton, pork, parsley, thyme, pepper, potato. 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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