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Halbttt Steak, Stuffed and Baked

A steak stuffed with bread crumbs, butter, onion, parsley, spices, and baked until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Halbttt Steak, Stuffed and Baked

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Wash and thoroughly dry the steaks with a towel.

  2. Make a stuffing by mixing bread crumbs, butter, onion juice, parsley, cayenne, black pepper, nutmeg, and salt.

Assemble and bake

  1. Place one steak in a baking pan and spread the stuffing over it.

  2. Top with the second steak, add small pieces of butter on top, and dust lightly with salt and pepper.

  3. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for about 30 minutes, covering the pan lightly for the first 25 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve on a hot platter and garnish with sliced lemon.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Parsley + nutmegtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,062 recipes

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

  5. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Steaks
Provide the meat that is baked, with the stuffing sealed between two layers.
Bread crumbs
Absorb juices and butter in the stuffing, giving it a soft, moist texture.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and melts to baste the meat as it bakes.
Onion juice
Adds savory flavor to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Covering the pan for the first 25 minutes. Covering traps steam so the steak heats through and stays moist, then uncovering lets the surface brown in the remaining time.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, parsley, pepper, nutmeg, lemon):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, parsley, pepper, nutmeg, lemon. 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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