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Beefsteak Rolls

Beefsteak rolls are thin steaks rolled with a roast turkey dressing, buttered, seasoned, and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,592 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Beefsteak Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut thin steaks and broil them slightly.

  2. Prepare a dressing similar to that used for roast turkey.

Roll and season

  1. Roll the steaks, placing the dressing inside each roll.

  2. Skewer or tie the rolls neatly.

  3. Place the rolls in a pan with a little water.

  4. Spread butter over the rolls and season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

Bake

  1. Bake for 20 minutes.

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. Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Turkey + peppertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,636 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. 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

Thin steaks
Form the wrapping that encloses the dressing and holds the rolls together while cooking.
Dressing (as for roast turkey)
Fills the rolls, adding moisture and savory flavor as it cooks inside the beef.
Butter
Adds fat that promotes browning and enriches the surface of the rolls.

“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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