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Yexisox Cutlets or Steaks

A simple grilled steak or cutlet served with optional mushrooms, baked potatoes, or currant jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Yexisox Cutlets or Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the cutlets or steaks neatly, leaving the fat intact.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil on a hot grill over a gentle fire, turning often, for about 20 minutes.

  2. Serve with stewed mushrooms and baked potatoes, or hot currant jelly as a sauce if mushrooms are unavailable.

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 + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together968 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + curranttop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Pepper + curranttop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Cutlets or steaks
Provide the meat that is cooked and served as the main part of the dish.
Potatoes
Serve as the baked side dish accompanying the steak.
Mushrooms
Serve as an optional stewed side dish alongside the steak.
Currant jelly
Serves as an optional hot sauce in place of mushrooms.

The step that matters

Broiling over a gentle fire while turning often. Turning often over moderate heat lets the surface brown without burning before the interior cooks through. Too hot a fire chars the outside and leaves the centre underdone.

Swap the currant

The recipe marks currant as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, mushroom, potato):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, mushroom, potato. 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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