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Boodinette3 of Cold Meat

A fried patty made from minced cold meat, boiled potatoes, mushrooms, and bread crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Boodinette3 of Cold Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the potatoes, dry them, and pass them through a sieve.

  2. Mix the minced cold meat, chopped mushrooms, and seasoning together.

  3. Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add the potatoes and meat mixture; mix well.

Shape and coat

  1. Turn the mixture onto a plate to cool, then shape into cork-shaped pieces.

  2. Dip each piece in beaten egg and coat with bread crumbs.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry in hot fat until golden brown and garnish with fried parsley.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Mushroom + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Potato + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together968 recipes

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

  5. Mushroom + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 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

Potatoes
Bind the meat into a soft, moist mass that holds its shape when shaped.
Cold meat
Provides the main filling, giving the dish its savoury flavour and body.
Egg
Acts as a binder and glue so the bread crumbs stick to each piece.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp golden coating that browns when fried.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the potato and meat mixture.

The step that matters

Cooling before shaping. The mixture must cool enough to hold its shape; if still hot and soft it will be hard to form into pieces and may fall apart in the fat.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, mushroom, butter, pepper, egg, bread):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, mushroom, butter, pepper, egg, bread. 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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