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Suet-crust for Beef-steak Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Suet-crust for Beef-steak Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the beef suet as finely as possible after removing the skin.

  2. In a bowl, combine the flour, chopped suet, and salt.

  3. Rub the suet into the flour with your hands.

  4. Gradually add cold water until a smooth paste forms.

  5. Transfer the paste to a floured board.

  6. Roll out the paste to a thickness of just over ⅛ inch.

  7. Butter a quart pudding basin well inside.

  8. Line the basin smoothly with the rolled-out paste.

  9. Trim the excess paste above the edge of the basin.

  10. Roll out the trimmed paste into a round for the top of the basin, also ⅛ inch thick.

  11. Slice the beef steak into thin pieces and flour them.

  12. Season the slices with pepper and salt.

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. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  4. Pepper + oystertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,663 recipes

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

  5. Flour + oystertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,582 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (grass, green).

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