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The Seasoning of Corned Beef

This recipe uses saltpetre, which may pose food safety risks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,193 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

The Seasoning of Corned Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Tie the Corned Beef Flavor seasoning in a piece of cheese cloth.

  2. Place the cheese cloth in the brine containing the corned beef.

  3. Allow it to sit so the brine flavors the corned beef uniformly.

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 + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,193 recipes

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

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

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