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Cold Beef Tongue

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cold Beef Tongue

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the tongue for three hours until cooked.

  2. Skin the tongue and trim off rough parts.

  3. Truss the tongue by securing the root with a fork against a fixture.

  4. Once cold, finish trimming the tongue and place it on a dish.

  5. Fix a frilled paper around the roots with skewers and wet it with hot jelly.

  6. Garnish with parsley and chopped aspic.

  7. Carve an imitation scallop shell design on the tongue.

  8. Glaze the tongue with light glaze and spread a thick layer of aspic jelly over it.

  9. Garnish the dish with skewers decorated with jelly and mushrooms.

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 + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Parsley + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,132 recipes

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

  3. Beef + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,866 recipes

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

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, mushroom):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Pepperfits better
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, mushroom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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