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Beef Steaks Rolled and Roasted

Beef steaks rolled with a ham and veal stuffing, roasted and served with brown gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Beef Steaks Rolled and Roasted

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the steaks

  1. If the steaks are not tender, beat them well.

Make the stuffing

  1. Make a rich stuffing with ham, veal, and pepper.

  2. Stew the stuffing briefly.

  3. Pound the stuffing with bread soaked in milk, butter, and egg yolks.

Roll and roast

  1. Spread the stuffing over the steaks.

  2. Roll the steaks up.

  3. Tie the rolls tightly.

  4. Roast the rolls before a clear fire for 1 hour and 20 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes.

  5. Baste the rolls well with butter while roasting.

Serve

  1. Serve the rolls with brown gravy.

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 + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Steaks from the rump
Form the outer wrapper that holds the stuffing and cooks into tender slices.
Ham and veal
Provide the savoury, meaty filling that gives the roll its main flavour.
Bread soaked in milk
Soaks up liquid and binds the stuffing so it stays moist when pounded.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and browns the outside of the rolls while basting.
Egg yolks
Enrich the stuffing and help bind it into a cohesive mixture.

The step that matters

Tie the rolls tightly. Loose ties let the stuffing shift and escape while the meat shrinks in heat, so the rolls can open up and dry unevenly.

“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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