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Scraped Beef Sandwiches

A sandwich made with sliced lean beef and buttered bread, toasted and cut into thin pieces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,032 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Scraped Beef Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scrape the lean beef to remove the pulp from the fiber.

  2. Spread the scraped beef on thin slices of buttered bread.

  3. Toast the bread lightly.

  4. Cut the bread into very thin slices.

  5. Make the sandwiches small.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lean beef (round steak)
Provides the main filling; scraping separates the meat from its fibers for a soft, spreadable texture.
Buttered bread
Forms the base and carries the filling; butter adds richness and helps the bread brown when toasted.

The step that matters

Scrape the lean beef. Scraping must separate the pulp from the fibers evenly. Leftover fibrous bits make the filling tough and stringy, while over-scraping can turn it pasty.

“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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