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Baked Steak

A steak rolled with a breadcrumb and onion stuffing, baked until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Baked 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. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Make a stuffing by mixing Graham bread crumbs, chopped onion, salt, and sage.

  3. Wet the mixture with milk and spread it on the steak.

  4. Roll the steak up like a jelly roll and secure it with skewers or thread.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the rolled steak in a baking pan with a little water.

  2. Sprinkle the steak with salt and bake for 1 hour, basting occasionally.

  3. Serve sliced cold if desired.

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. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Onion + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,628 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

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

  5. Onion + milktop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Round steak
Forms the main body of the dish, wrapped around the stuffing and cooked through.
Graham bread crumbs
Absorb the milk and form a moist stuffing that holds its shape inside the roll.
Milk
Moistens the crumbs so the stuffing stays tender rather than dry during baking.
Onion
Adds aroma and savory flavor to the stuffing as it softens in the oven.

The step that matters

Rolling and securing the steak. If the roll is loose or the skewers are weak, the stuffing can leak out during baking. Securing it tightly keeps the filling inside and the slices neat.

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, onion, milk):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, onion, milk. 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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