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Baking Meats

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Baking Meats

Ingredients

Directions

  1. For beef sirloin, cook rare for 8 to 10 minutes per pound, or well done for 12 to 15 minutes per pound.

  2. For mutton, cook rare for 10 minutes per pound, or well done for 15 minutes per pound.

  3. For lamb, cook well done for 15 minutes per pound.

  4. For veal, cook well done for 20 minutes per pound.

  5. For pork, cook well done for 30 minutes per pound.

  6. For turkey (10 lbs), cook for 3 hours.

  7. For chickens (3 to 4 lbs), cook for 1 to 1.5 hours.

  8. For goose (8 lbs), cook for 2 hours.

  9. For tame duck, cook for 40 to 60 minutes.

  10. For game duck, cook for 30 to 40 minutes.

  11. For grouse or pigeons, cook for 30 minutes.

  12. For small birds, cook for 15 to 20 minutes.

  13. For venison, cook for 15 minutes per pound.

  14. For fish (6 to 8 lbs), cook for 1 hour; for thick halibut (4 to 6 lbs), cook for 1 hour; for small fish, cook for 20 to 30 minutes.

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

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

  2. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Beef + lambtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together896 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Lamb + chickentop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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