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A dish of boiled corn beef and veal, cooled, bone‑removed, mixed, pressed, and sliced.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and veal are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,784 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Pressed Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the meat

  1. Place the corn beef in a pot with cold water and cook.

  2. When the corn beef is half done, add the veal.

  3. Continue cooking until the water is nearly boiled out.

Press and serve

  1. Let the meat cool in the cooking liquid.

  2. Remove all bones, mix the meat slightly, and press it.

  3. Slice when thoroughly 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. Beef + vealtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Corn + beeftop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,028 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Corn + vealtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together247 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Corn beef
Forms the main body of the pressed meat once cooked and pressed together.
Veal
Adds to the meat mass and mildly softens the texture as it cooks down with the beef.

The step that matters

Let the meat cool fully before slicing. Pressing and chilling set the meat so it holds together. Slicing before it is thoroughly cold can cause it to crumble or fall apart.

“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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