Name: Beef Tea with Oatmeal
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons cooked oatmeal; 2 tablespoons cold water; 1 pint beef tea

Why it works: Beef and tea work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 417 recipes. Both carry 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan, which smells thiamin, meat. The science ↓

Beef Tea with Oatmeal

Ingredients

2 tablespoons cooked oatmeal
2 tablespoons cold water
1 pint beef tea

Directions

Mix the oatmeal and cold water thoroughly.
Add the boiling beef tea and boil together for 5 minutes.
Strain through a fine sieve.

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.

Beef + teatop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together417 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

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What each ingredient does

Cooked oatmeal: Thickens the liquid and gives the beef tea a smooth, light body.
Beef tea: Provides the main savoury liquid and beef flavour of the drink.

“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.