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Cold Corned Beef

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Cold Corned Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and blanch the tongue for about 10 minutes until the skin can be easily removed.

  2. Boil the tongue in a soup kettle with the beef to make broth until done.

  3. Cut square fillets of bacon, dredge in a mixture of chopped parsley, chives, salt, pepper, and a little allspice, and lard the tongue with the fillets.

  4. In a crockery stewpan, combine diced bacon, parsley, thyme, basil, bay leaves, garlic, cloves, carrots, onions, salt, and pepper.

  5. Lay the tongue on top, wet with white wine and broth, cover, and simmer on moderate heat for about 5 hours.

  6. Once cooked, place the tongue on a dish, strain the sauce over it, and 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.

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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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Thyme + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  4. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Parsley + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, parsley, thyme, basil, garlic, carrot, onion):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Winter savoryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, parsley, thyme, basil, garlic, carrot, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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