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Cold Corn-beef

Cold Corn Beef is sliced cold beef served with baked potatoes, bread, butter, pickles, mince pie, and cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 938 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cold Corn-beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the cold corn-beef nicely.

  2. Bake the potatoes until tender.

  3. Serve with bread and butter.

  4. Add pickles on the side.

  5. For dessert, serve mince pie and cheese.

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. Corn + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together938 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold corn-beef
Provides the main protein, served sliced cold as the centrepiece of the meal.
Baked potatoes
Supply starch and bulk, turning soft and fluffy when baked until tender.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that melts over bread and potatoes, carrying flavour.
Bread
Acts as a neutral base that soaks up butter and pairs with the cold meat.

Swap the potato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, beef, bread, butter, cheese. 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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