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Fillets of Beef a LA Comtesse De Pomar

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Fillets of Beef a LA Comtesse De Pomar

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the beef into slices ¼ inch thick and then into rounds the size of a coin, aiming for two rounds per person.

  2. Season the rounds with pepper and salt.

  3. Place a slice of beef marrow and a slice of truffle between two fillet rounds, filling the space with beef farce.

  4. Press the fillets together and wrap them in cleansed caul.

  5. Dip the wrapped fillets in beaten egg white and brush with salad oil or clarified butter.

  6. Grill or broil for about 5 minutes, using oiled straws to prevent sticking.

  7. Brush the fillets with egg white again, sprinkle with chopped truffle, and grill for another 8 minutes under a buttered paper.

  8. Serve hot on a bed of cooked beef farce, with Pomar sauce around them.

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 + porktop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

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

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

  3. Truffle + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethylphenol (must).

  4. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

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