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Steaks, Chops, Etc

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Mutton and lamb work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 598 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Steaks, Chops, Etc

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the tenderloin for 4 people.

  2. Prepare the porterhouse steaks for 2, 3, and 4 people as needed.

  3. Grill the club steak for 5 people.

  4. Sear the steak à la minute quickly.

  5. Cook the entrecôte à la minute quickly.

  6. Prepare the rump steak and hamburg steak as desired.

  7. Cook the filet mignon to preference.

  8. Grill the English mutton chop and mutton chops.

  9. Prepare lamb chops and veal chop as desired.

  10. Cook sweetbreads and serve with sauce options.

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 + lambtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Lamb + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together520 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Potato + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together968 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Lamb + mushroomtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Mutton + mushroomtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together685 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 potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, lamb, veal, mushroom, sauce):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, lamb, veal, mushroom, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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