Name: Round Beefsteak
Ingredients: round steak; goose drippings or poultry drippings; salt; pepper; onion (optional)

Why it works: Pepper and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Round Beefsteak

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Ask your butcher to prepare the round steak for frying.
For hamburger steak, chop the round steak finely and season with salt and pepper.
For invalids, scrape the steak instead of chopping.

Cook

Heat goose or poultry drippings in a pan.
Fry the steak until cooked to your liking.
Optionally, grate in part of an onion or fry with onions.

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.

Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Round steak: Provides the main meat, which cooks through quickly in hot fat when fried.
Goose drippings or poultry drippings: Hot fat that fries the steak and adds rich, savory flavor.

“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.