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Beef Patties

Beef patties made from minced roast beef, spices, and optional mushroom gravy, formed into half-moon shapes and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Beef Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mince the lean underdone roast beef and a little of the fat.

  2. Season the minced beef with cayenne, nutmeg or mace, and chopped herbs.

  3. If desired, moisten the meat with mushroom gravy.

Make and fill the patties

  1. Make a paste with flour and water.

  2. Roll the paste out thin.

  3. Cut the paste into small circular sheets.

  4. Place a spoonful of the minced beef on each sheet, leaving space at the edges.

  5. Fold the sheets over to form half-moons.

  6. Crimp the edges with a knife.

Bake

  1. Place the patties in a baking pan.

  2. Prick them with a fork.

  3. Bake until brown.

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. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

  3. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

  5. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 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

Roast beef
Provides the main filling, and its fat keeps the minced meat moist and flavourful.
Flour
Forms the paste that encloses the filling and bakes into a sturdy, browned crust.
Mushroom gravy
Moistens the minced meat so the filling stays juicy inside the baked crust.

The step that matters

Leave space at the edges of each sheet. Filling too close to the edge can prevent the paste from sealing properly, so the patty may open or leak during baking. Clear edges let the crimped seal hold.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, mushroom, flour):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, mushroom, flour. 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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