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Beef Tongue Salad

A salad made from smoked beef tongue, egg yolk dressing, olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,971 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Beef Tongue Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tongue

  1. Boil the smoked beef tongue until thoroughly cooked.

  2. Let it cool, then grate it very fine.

Make the dressing

  1. Mash the yolks of 4 hard boiled eggs and mix in 2 tablespoons of olive oil.

  2. Add 2 teaspoons of coarse sea salt, pepper to taste, and ½ cup of vinegar to the egg mixture.

  3. Beat the dressing well and mix it with the grated tongue just before serving.

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

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

  2. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  4. Beef + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,220 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Smoked beef tongue
Provides the main meat and body of the salad once grated.
Hard boiled egg yolks
Mashed into a creamy base that binds the dressing together.
Olive oil
Adds fat and smooth richness to the egg dressing.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the richness.

The step that matters

Beat the dressing well. Beating the mashed yolks, oil, and vinegar together helps them emulsify into a smooth, cohesive dressing. Mixing it in just before serving keeps the acid from thinning or softening the grated tongue too early.

“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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