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Cured and Salted Meats

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and beef are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,373 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Cured and Salted Meats

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cure the ham by rubbing it with salt and spices.

  2. For bacon, salt and cure it for several days.

  3. Boil the macaroni until tender, then drain.

  4. Prepare the broad beans by boiling them until soft.

  5. Cook the cheeks by boiling or braising them.

  6. For fish, salt and cure it before cooking.

  7. For mutton, rub with salt and spices, then cure.

  8. Pickle the tongue in a hot pickle solution.

  9. Serve cured meats with eggs or as part of a savory dish.

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. Mutton + beeftop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,373 recipes

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

  2. Beans + beeftop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,134 recipes

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

  3. Fish + muttontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together121 recipes

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

  4. Fish + beeftop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Ham + muttontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, ham, fish, mutton, beef):

  1. Peasfits better
  2. Beansthe original
  3. Lima beansfits about as well
  4. Walnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, ham, fish, mutton, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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