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Rump Steak, Broiled

A broiled rump steak served with optional butter, lemon, sauces, and garnishes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Rump Steak, Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Preheat the grill or broiler.

  2. Season the rump steak lightly with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the steak to your desired doneness.

  2. Serve the steak on a hot dish with fresh butter under and over it.

  3. Optionally, squeeze half a lemon over the steak.

  4. Drizzle with Harvey's sauce or rub with maitre d'hotel or anchovy butter.

  5. Garnish with fried onions or fried potatoes if desired.

  6. Serve additional sauces or stewed cucumbers separately.

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

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

  2. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

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

  3. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

Rump steak
Provides the main meat, cooked by direct heat to the desired doneness.
Fresh butter
Adds richness and moisture to the steak's surface while it rests on the hot dish.

The step that matters

Broil the steak to your desired doneness. Broiling cooks the surface quickly with intense radiant heat, so the steak can brown and overcook within minutes. Checking doneness early helps keep it juicy and tender.

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, butter, sauce, onion, fried potato, oyster, mushroom):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Plumfits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Limefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, butter, sauce, onion, fried potato, oyster, mushroom. 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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