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Beef Steak with Oysters

Beef steak fillets stuffed with oysters, marinated in vinegar, oil, pepper, and salt, then sautéed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,971 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beef Steak with Oysters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Make an incision in each fillet and insert an oyster.

  2. Secure the oysters with a small wooden skewer.

  3. Sprinkle the fillets with vinegar, oil, pepper, and salt, and let them marinate for about an hour.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a little oil or butter in a chafing dish.

  2. Sauté the fillets for four minutes on each side.

  3. Serve immediately.

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

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

  2. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Beef + oystertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Oyster + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,663 recipes

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

  5. Beef + vinegartop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,895 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef fillets
Forms the main body of the dish and provides the meat that is cooked and served.
Oysters
Tucked inside the fillets to add a briny, savoury flavour to the beef.
Vinegar
Acidity that brightens the flavour of the beef during marinating.

The step that matters

Sautéing the fillets. Cooking for four minutes per side in a hot pan browns the surface and sets the outside while leaving the centre tender. Overcooking toughens the meat and can make the oyster inside rubbery.

“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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