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Beep Rissoles

A savory beef patty made with minced roast beef, breadcrumbs, herbs, lemon peel, and eggs, fried and served with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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

  1. Mince the beef very fine, ensuring it is rather 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 the rissoles until they are a rich brown.

  2. Garnish with fried parsley and serve with good brown gravy.

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
Provides the main body of the rissoles; finely minced, it forms the bulk of the filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help bind the minced beef into a firm, shapeable mixture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture into a thick paste that holds its shape when frying.
Lemon peel
Adds aroma and a bright citrus note to the savory beef.

The step that matters

Frying until a rich brown. Browning through frying develops deep savory flavour from the Maillard reaction on the surface. Cooking too gently or briefly leaves the rissoles pale and less flavourful, while the mixture must be cooked through.

“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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