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Raw Beef Sandwiches

A sandwich made with raw shredded beef seasoned with pepper, salt, and optional sugar, served on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Raw Beef Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beef

  1. Trim away the fat and gristle from the steak and finely shred the meat.

  2. If possible, pound the meat and rub it through a wire sieve.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Spread the meat on the thin slices of buttered bread and season with pepper and salt.

  2. Top with another slice of bread and cut into squares or stamp into rounds.

  3. For a sweeter version, spread the raw meat on the bread, sprinkle with castor sugar, and place another slice on top.

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

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

  2. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Bread + sugartop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,638 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Topside or juicy steak
Provides the raw meat that forms the sandwich filling; trimming fat and gristle leaves tender meat.
Bread
Thin slices hold the meat and give the sandwich its structure and body.
Butter
Spread on the bread, adding richness and a barrier that keeps the bread from soaking up meat juices.

The step that matters

Trim away the fat and gristle. Fat and gristle stay tough and chewy when raw, so removing them first keeps the shredded meat tender and easy to eat in a sandwich.

“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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