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Beef Toast

Beef Toast is slices of lean beef sautéed and served over toast with lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,278 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Beef Toast

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the beef into ½ inch thick slices.

  2. Heat a dry frying pan until very hot.

  3. Place the beef slices in the pan and cook until heated through.

  4. Squeeze juice from the lemon over the beef.

  5. Pour the beef and juice over the toast and serve hot.

  6. Do not butter the toast.

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 + lemontop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,278 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

Beef
Provides the main protein; searing in a very hot dry pan browns the surface and adds savoury flavour.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the seared beef.

The step that matters

Cook the beef in a very hot dry pan. Thin slices need a very hot pan so the surface browns quickly before the inside overcooks. Crowding or a cooler pan makes the meat steam and turn grey and tough.

“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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