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Broiled Yen Ison Steak

A steak broiled and topped with melted currant jelly and butter, seasoned with pepper and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Currant and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,856 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Broiled Yen Ison Steak

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the steak

  1. Broil the steak quickly over a clear fire until cooked to your liking.

Make the glaze

  1. Melt the currant jelly with the butter in a small saucepan.

Finish and serve

  1. Pour the melted mixture over the steak.

  2. Season with pepper and salt.

  3. Serve hot on hot plates.

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. Currant + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,856 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Currant + peppertop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,345 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Steak
Is the main cut cooked by broiling, providing the core of the dish.
Currant jelly
Adds sweetness and a tart fruit flavour, and melts into a glaze over the meat.
Butter
Melts with the jelly to add richness and help the glaze coat the steak.

The step that matters

Broil the steak quickly over a clear fire. Intense direct heat browns the surface and seals in juices. Cooking too slowly or on a smoky, uneven fire can dry the meat or leave it grey before the centre reaches the desired doneness.

Swap the currant

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, 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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