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Beep Olives

A dish of thinly sliced beef seasoned with veal seasoning, simmered with stock, peppercorns, onion, and carrot, served with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and carrot are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21,601 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beep Olives

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the olives

  1. Cut the steak into thin slices about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide.

  2. Shape the veal seasoning into small corks.

  3. Roll one veal seasoning cork up in each slice of steak.

  4. Thread the slices onto a skewer.

Simmer

  1. Place the skewered slices in a saucepan.

  2. Pour in the stock.

  3. Add the peppercorns.

  4. Add the onion.

  5. Add the carrot.

  6. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  7. Simmer gently for 1.5 hours.

Make the gravy and serve

  1. Place the olives on a hot dish.

  2. Remove the skewers.

  3. Discard the fat.

  4. Boil the gravy.

  5. Season the gravy to taste.

  6. Pour the gravy around the olives.

  7. Serve hot.

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. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together21,601 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Veal + carrottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Veal + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,841 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Rump steak
Wraps around the stuffing and becomes tender during the long, gentle simmer.
Veal seasoning
Forms the savory filling that flavors each rolled olive from the inside.
Stock
Provides the cooking liquid that moistens the meat and becomes the base of the gravy.
Onion
Adds savory sweetness and aroma to the stock as it simmers.
Carrot
Adds subtle sweetness and body to the stock and gravy.

The step that matters

Simmer gently for 1.5 hours. A gentle simmer lets collagen in the rump steak slowly break down into tender meat. A hard boil toughens muscle fibres and can make the olives fall apart.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, carrot):

  1. Parsnipfits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, carrot. 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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