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Spiced Beef

A seasoned beef roll made with eggs, breadcrumbs, cream, butter, and spices, baked and sliced.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Spiced Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the raw chopped steak with coarse sea salt, black pepper, and spices to taste.

  2. Add 2 eggs, 2 cups of bread crumbs, 5 tablespoons of cream, and a small piece of butter.

  3. Mix the ingredients and form into a roll, adding enough flour to bind it together.

Bake and serve

  1. Place in a pan with a little butter and bake until cooked through.

  2. Slice when cold.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Raw chopped steak
Forms the main body of the roll and provides the meaty texture.
2 eggs
Bind the mixture and help it hold its shape when cooked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and add bulk, keeping the roll tender rather than dense.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the cooked meat juicy.
Flour
Helps bind the mixture together so the roll holds its form.

The step that matters

Form the roll and bind it with flour. If the mixture is too wet, the roll may fall apart when sliced. Enough flour helps the proteins and crumbs hold together as it cooks, giving clean slices once cold.

“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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