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Meat Dry

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and turmeric match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,776 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Meat Dry

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the pieces of meat in water until cooked.

  2. In a bowl, mix besam, powdered or pasted poppy seeds, almonds, chillies, garam masala, coriander, ginger, turmeric, and coarse sea salt.

  3. Add the egg whites and beat the mixture to a thick paste.

  4. Dip the boiled meat pieces into the paste.

  5. Fry the coated meat pieces in enough boiling ghee until golden brown.

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. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Coriander + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,505 recipes

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

  3. Coriander + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,253 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Poppy seed + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

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

Swap the poppy seed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, flour, almond, coriander, ginger, turmeric, egg):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Poppy seedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, flour, almond, coriander, ginger, turmeric, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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