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Stuffed Beef Steak

A beef steak rolled and baked with a butter, breadcrumb, tomato, onion, cayenne, parsley, and salt dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Stuffed Beef Steak

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Beat the steak until tender, then season with salt and pepper.

  2. In a bowl, combine butter, bread crumbs, tomatoes, chopped onion, cayenne pepper, parsley, and salt to make the dressing.

Stuff and roll

  1. Spread the dressing on the steak, roll it up, and tie it securely.

  2. Dust the rolled steak with flour.

Bake

  1. In a baking dish, add water and olive oil, then place the steak in the dish.

  2. Bake at 350°F (175°C), basting frequently.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Round beef steak
Forms the outer wrapper and the main meat; beating it tenderises the muscle fibres.
Fresh bread crumbs
Absorb juices and give the dressing body so it holds inside the roll.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the dressing, contributing moisture and flavour.
Onion
Adds aroma and savoury depth to the dressing as it bakes.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and a mild acidity to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Tie the roll securely. If the steak roll is not tied tightly, the dressing can push out and leak during baking. A snug roll keeps the filling inside and lets the meat cook evenly around it.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, butter, bread, tomato, pepper, parsley, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, butter, bread, tomato, pepper, parsley, olive. 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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