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Beef Restorative

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and port wine work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 626 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Beef Restorative

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the beef and port wine.

  2. Let it stand for five hours.

  3. Strain very carefully.

  4. Serve in spoonfuls.

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 + port winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together626 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

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