Why it works: Meat and molasses work together. They rank in the top 37% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 441 recipes. The science ↓
Mince Meat
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the meat until cooked through.
Chop the boiled meat finely.
Pack the chopped meat into a stone jar.
Cover the meat with molasses.
Store in a cool place for several months.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Meat + molassestop 37% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together441 recipes
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