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Brisket Op Beep Stuffed

A boiled brisket stuffed with a bread crumb and herb mixture, then sliced thinly and served cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,259 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Brisket Op Beep Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dressing

  1. In a bowl, mix bread crumbs, pepper, salt, sweet herbs, mustard, chopped onion, and egg to make the dressing.

Stuff and boil

  1. Boil the brisket for 5 to 6 hours.

  2. Stuff the dressing between the fat and lean of the brisket and sew it tightly.

  3. Dust the outside with flour and wrap it tightly in a cloth.

  4. Boil the wrapped brisket for another 5 to 6 hours.

Press and serve

  1. Once done, remove the cloth and press the brisket until it cools.

  2. Slice thinly and serve cold.

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. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef brisket
Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender through long, moist boiling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and bind the stuffing so it holds together inside the meat.
Egg
Binds the dressing ingredients together as it sets during cooking.
Mustard
Adds sharp flavor that balances the richness of the beef.
Onion
Adds savory aroma and moisture to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Stuffing between the fat and lean and sewing it tightly. If the pocket is not sealed tightly, the dressing can leak or loosen during the long boil, leaving the stuffing unevenly held and the slices harder to keep intact.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, bread, pepper, onion, egg, flour):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, bread, pepper, onion, egg, flour. 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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