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Chopped Cold Meat

A dish of chopped cold meat topped with a seasoned rice mixture, baked until warmed and browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Chopped Cold Meat

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the meat

  1. Season the chopped cold meat.

  2. Wet the seasoned meat with gravy if available.

  3. Place the meat on a platter.

Make the rice mixture

  1. In a bowl, combine cold rice with milk and 1 egg.

  2. Season the mixture with pepper and salt.

  3. If the rice mixture is insufficient, add powdered bread crumbs until thick.

Bake and serve

  1. Spread the rice mixture around the meat on the platter.

  2. Heat in the oven at 350°F (175°C) until warmed and 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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  4. Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,259 recipes

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

  5. Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold rice
Forms the bulk of the coating and gives the dish its body.
Egg
Binds the rice mixture so it holds together when heated.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the rice mixture.
Powdered bread crumbs
Thickens the mixture when it is too loose to hold its shape.
Cold meat
Serves as the base of the dish, flavored by seasoning and gravy.

The step that matters

Heat in the oven at 350°F (175°C) until warmed and browned. Heating too long can dry out the rice and meat, while too little leaves the center cool. Watching for a light golden surface shows the coating has set and browned.

“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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