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Cdrned Beef Hash

A hash of corned beef, potatoes, butter, water, and pepper cooked in a pan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,052 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Cdrned Beef Hash

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In an iron frying pan, melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the chopped beef, chopped potatoes, water, and pepper; stir gently to combine without breaking the potatoes.

Cook and serve

  1. Cover and heat thoroughly.

  2. Remove the cover and move the hash to one side of the pan, allowing it to brown on the hottest part of the pan.

  3. Once browned, slide a knife under the hash, place a platter on top, and turn the pan upside down to serve.

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.

Explore the science

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 + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  4. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Butter + beeftop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds fat for frying and carries flavor, helping the hash brown on the pan.
Chopped potatoes
Provide starch and body, crisping on the hot pan surface while the inside stays tender.
Chopped beef
Supplies the main savory flavor and protein that makes up most of the hash.
Water
Adds moisture so the hash heats through evenly while covered.

The step that matters

Browning on the hottest part of the pan. Browning relies on direct, high heat and dry surface contact. Without an undisturbed period on the hottest spot, the hash steams instead of forming a crisp, flavorful crust.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, beef, pepper):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Onionfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Tomatofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, beef, pepper. 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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