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Beep Rissoles

A fried patty made from minced beef, bread crumbs, herbs, lemon peel, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Beep Rissoles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Mince the beef very fine, ensuring it is lean.

  2. Mix the minced beef with bread crumbs, herbs, seasoning, and lemon peel.

  3. Add 1 or 2 eggs to form a thick paste.

  4. Divide the mixture into balls or cones.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry until golden brown.

  2. Garnish with fried parsley or pour gravy around the rissoles.

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 + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  2. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  3. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold roast beef
Forms the main body of the rissoles and gives them their meaty flavor.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and bind the minced beef so the mixture holds its shape.
Eggs
Bind the mixture into a thick paste that holds together when shaped and fried.

The step that matters

Add 1 or 2 eggs to form a thick paste. Too little egg leaves the mixture crumbly and it may fall apart in the pan, while too much makes it wet and soft. Add the egg gradually until the paste just holds together when shaped.

“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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