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Baked Hash of Rice and Beef

A baked dish of cooked rice, beef, milk, egg, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Baked Hash of Rice and Beef

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

Make the hash

  1. In a saucepan, heat the milk until hot.

  2. Add the chopped beef, rice, butter, salt, and pepper to the hot milk and stir for 1 minute to ensure everything is thoroughly heated.

  3. Remove from heat and stir in the beaten egg.

Bake and serve

  1. Transfer the mixture to a baking dish and bake for 20 minutes.

  2. Serve in the same dish, ensuring the hash is browned.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked beef
Provides the main protein and savory bulk of the hash.
Cooked rice
Adds body and starch that helps the hash hold together as it bakes.
Milk
Supplies moisture and creaminess as it heats with the rice and beef.
Egg
Sets during baking, binding the mixture into a cohesive, sliceable hash.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps promote browning on the surface.

The step that matters

Stirring the egg in off the heat. Adding the beaten egg after removing the pan from heat keeps it from scrambling in the hot milk. It then sets gently in the oven, binding the hash smoothly instead of leaving curds.

“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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