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Bkoiled Beefsteak

A sliced loin steak cooked over live coals and seasoned with butter, coarse sea salt, and black pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85,593 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Bkoiled Beefsteak

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the steak

  1. Cut the loin steak into slices of moderate thickness.

  2. Place the slices on a grill over a fire of live coals.

  3. Turn the steak two or three times while cooking.

  4. Be careful not to overcook the steak.

Season and serve

  1. Season with butter, coarse sea salt, and black pepper.

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. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 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

Loin steak
Provides the meat that cooks through over the coals, giving the dish its main texture and bulk.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the cooked steak as it is seasoned.

The step that matters

Avoid overcooking the steak. Meat proteins tighten and lose moisture as they overheat, so the steak turns dry and tough if left too long over the coals. Turning it during cooking helps heat it evenly.

“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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