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Why it works: Beef and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,092 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Meats, Hot and Cold

Ingredients

Directions

  1. ions. Cut into four pieces, season with salt and pep- per; dip them in egg and bread crumbs. Place them in a pan, and pour over each piece enough melted butter to moisten it, then roast in the oven eighteen or twenty minutes. Serve with a cream sauce.

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  3. Steak with Dressing;,

  4. Three pounds of beef from the round, cut thick. Take a heaping pint of bread crumbs, season well with salt, pepper and two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, spread the dressing on the beef, roll it up close, and tie it carefully. Wrap it in a buttered cloth and steam it two hours and a quarter. Or if preferred, bake it, by putting a little butter with a little water and basting the steak with this liquid. Do not let it bake too brown. If oven is too hot cover the steak with a tin pan or cover. Is nice sliced cold.

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  6. Hamburg Steak.

  7. Chop one pound of lean raw meat very fine, remove all the fibre possible. To this add half a teaspoonful of onion juice, half a teaspoonful of salt, quarter of a tea- spoonful of pepper, one egg, and a dash of nutmeg. Make into round flat cakes, dredge them with flour and fry in butter and lard mixed.

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  10. Dress the quail as for roasting, omitting the salt pork, put butter, salt, and pepper in the bottom of a pot, lay in the quail. Cook them three quarters of an hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

492Calories
34 gProtein
33 gFat
13 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Meatnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Young Men's Christian Association (Montpelier, Vt.). Women of the Auxiliary. 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. See the original page.

Explore the science

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 + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  2. Nutmeg + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  3. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  4. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  5. Beef + meattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,533 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, butter, meat, nutmeg, egg, pepper):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, butter, meat, nutmeg, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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