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Broiled Beef and Mushroom Sauce

A dish of cold roast beef served with a mushroom sauce made from button mushrooms, butter, mushroom ketchup, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Isabella Beeton · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 12 ingredients
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Broiled Beef and Mushroom Sauce

5 persons

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mushrooms

  1. Wipe the mushrooms free from grit with a piece of flannel, and salt.

  2. Put the mushrooms in a stewpan with the butter, seasoning, and ketchup.

  3. Stir over the fire until the mushrooms are quite done.

Serve

  1. Pour the sauce into the middle of browned mashed potatoes.

  2. Place slices of cold roast beef, nicely broiled, over a clear fire around the potatoes.

  3. (Optional) In making the mushroom sauce, the ketchup may be dispensed with, if there is sufficient gravy.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

586Calories
26 gProtein
5 gFat
109 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
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Oyster6 medium (84g)81
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Macenot 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 Isabella Beeton. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  2. Mushroom + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,663 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Ketchup + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Flour + clovetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,671 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Ketchup + oystertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together318 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Mushrooms
Give the sauce its main body, moisture and savoury mushroom flavour.
Mushroom ketchup
Adds concentrated savoury, umami depth to the mushroom sauce.
Flour
Thickens the sauce so it coats the meat and potatoes.

The step that matters

Stir over the fire until the mushrooms are quite done.. Mushrooms release a lot of liquid as they cook. Cooking them until fully tender and the liquid has reduced concentrates their flavour and keeps the sauce from being watery.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, ketchup, flour, oyster, clove):

  1. Allspicefits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, ketchup, flour, oyster, clove. 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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