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Udder, Beef

A dish of boiled beef udder served sliced with onion or tomato sauce, optionally salted, and accompanied by vinegar and oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,092 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Udder, Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Cook

  1. Gently simmer the beef udder in broth or water until tender.

  2. Slice the udder and serve with onion or tomato sauce.

Salt and serve cold

  1. If desired, salt the udder for a couple of days before boiling.

  2. Serve salted udder cold with vinegar and oil on the side.

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 + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  2. Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Beef + vinegartop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,895 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Beef udder
Main protein; its connective tissue softens into gelatin during long, slow cooking, giving a tender texture.
Broth or water
Cooking liquid that gently moistens the meat and carries flavor into it as it simmers.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that cuts through the richness of the fatty, tender meat.
Oil
Adds fat that gives the cold, sliced udder a smoother mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Gently simmer the beef udder until tender. Connective tissue breaks down into gelatin slowly at low, steady heat. A hard boil tightens the muscle fibres and leaves the meat tough and chewy.

“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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