Why it works: Beef and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓
Warm Dishes for Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Broil the beef steak until cooked to your liking.
Broil the chops until browned and cooked through.
Broil the chicken until the skin is crispy and the meat is cooked.
Broil the fish until flaky and cooked through.
Place broiled quail on toast and serve.
Fry the pork tenderloins until golden brown.
Fry the pig's feet until crispy.
Fry the oysters until golden and crispy.
Fry the clams until cooked through.
Fry the liver and bacon together until the liver is cooked and bacon is crispy.
Fry the chops until browned.
Fry the pork until cooked through.
Fry the ham and eggs together until the eggs are set.
Bread and fry the veal cutlets until golden brown.
Cook the sausages until browned and cooked through.
Fricassee the tripe until tender.
Fricassee the kidneys until cooked through.
Make a hash with turkey or chicken and serve.
Make a corned beef hash and serve hot.
Prepare beef croquettes and fry until golden.
Make codfish balls and fry until golden.
Cream the codfish and serve over toast.
Stew meats and serve on toast.
Poach eggs and serve on toast.
Make omelettes and serve hot.
Boil eggs plain or cook them in various styles.
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.
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Beef + porktop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,690 recipes
Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).
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Chicken + porktop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,417 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
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Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together2,148 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).
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Quail + porktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together308 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Fish + oystertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together496 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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