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Swedish Roast

A thick round steak seasoned with salt and pepper, coated in flour, browned in grease, then braised with water until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50,459 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Swedish Roast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the steak

  1. Sprinkle the steak with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  2. Roll the steak in flour, then pound it well.

Brown and braise

  1. Flour the steak again and brown it in hot grease.

  2. Pour in a small quantity of water, cover, and cook on the back of the range or in the oven until tender.

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. Pepper + flourtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Round steak
Lean, tough cut that becomes tender through slow, moist cooking.
Flour
Coats the steak, helping it brown and thickening the cooking liquid slightly.
Grease
Conducts heat for browning and adds richness to the crust.

The step that matters

Browning the floured steak in hot grease. Flour and hot fat create a deep brown crust through the Maillard reaction. Pale or steamed searing yields less flavour, so the steak should be browned well before adding water.

“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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