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Hashed Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and capsicum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,520 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Hashed Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the meat into small pieces, trimming off all sinews, skin, and gristle.

  2. In a saucepan, combine the sauces, black pepper, cayenne, salt, port wine, capsicums, and the gravy.

  3. Warm the mixture gently, ensuring it does not boil to keep the meat tender.

  4. If the sauce needs thickening, add a little flour from the dredger.

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. Tomato + capsicumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,520 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + capsicumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,571 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Port wine + capsicumtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together923 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + tomatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, sauce, pepper, port wine, capsicum, flour):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Tomatothe original
  4. Carrotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, sauce, pepper, port wine, capsicum, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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