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Broiled Beefsteak

A steak cooked under a broiler and seasoned with salt, pepper, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85,593 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Broiled Beefsteak

Ingredients

Directions

Broil the steak

  1. Preheat your broiler.

  2. Place the beefsteak on the broiler over a bright fire.

  3. Turn the steak frequently while cooking.

Finish and serve

  1. Once cooked, transfer the steak to a hot platter.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt, black pepper, and butter.

  3. Place the platter in the oven for a moment to melt the butter.

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. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Beefsteak
Provides the main protein that browns and cooks through under direct heat.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, melting over the hot steak to moisten the surface.

The step that matters

Turn the steak frequently while cooking. Frequent turning over high heat helps the surface brown evenly without burning, while the interior cooks gently and stays juicier.

“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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