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Beef Rechauffe

Breaded beef slices fried in butter with curry powder and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Beef Rechauffe

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beef

  1. Mix the curry powder, bread crumbs, pepper, and salt in a bowl.

  2. Cut the beef into neat slices.

  3. Dip each slice in the egg.

  4. Coat each slice with the bread crumbs.

Cook

  1. Heat the butter in a chafing dish over medium heat.

  2. Brown the meat quickly in the hot butter.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  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

Beef
Is the main protein that is coated and browned.
Egg
Acts as a binder so the bread crumb coating adheres to the slices.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating on the outside of the slices.
Butter
Conducts heat to brown the coated slices and adds richness.

The step that matters

Brown the meat quickly in the hot butter. The beef is already cooked through and underdone, so it only needs a quick sear. Prolonged cooking would dry it out and toughen the meat while the coating browns.

“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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