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Braised Sirloin with Stuffed Potatoes

Braised sirloin served with butter‑browned stuffed potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,456 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Braised Sirloin with Stuffed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Braise the sirloin

  1. Lard the top sirloin and braise it until done.

  2. Remove the meat and strain the cooking liquid.

  3. Skim the fat from the liquid and reduce it to a glaze.

  4. Slice the meat and serve it with the glaze.

Stuff and bake the potatoes

  1. Cut the potatoes with a large scoop and remove the centers.

  2. Blanch the potatoes and drain them.

  3. Fill the holes with savory forcemeat.

  4. Bake the stuffed potatoes until done and browned with butter.

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Top sirloin
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender through slow braising in liquid.
Savory forcemeat
Fills the potato centers, adding savory flavor and a firm, moist filling.
Butter
Adds fat that promotes browning and a rich flavor on the baked potatoes.
Potatoes
Serve as the hollow shell holding the forcemeat, becoming soft inside as they bake.

The step that matters

Reduce the cooking liquid to a glaze. Skimming the fat first keeps the glaze from tasting greasy. Reducing concentrates the liquid's flavor and gives it a glossy, syrupy body as water evaporates.

“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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