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Salt Beef

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Salt Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the brisket in a pot and cover with cold water.

  2. Bring the water to a boil slowly, skimming off any scum.

  3. Once clear, add the chopped onions, carrots, turnips, celery, garlic, peppercorns, cinnamon, herbs, and lemon rind.

  4. Simmer for at least 4 hours.

  5. Remove the meat, take out the bones, and wrap the joint in a clean napkin.

  6. Place the wrapped joint on a baking sheet and weigh it down with another dish.

  7. Leave it pressed overnight.

  8. The next morning, remove the weights and cloth, and trim the joint into a neat shape.

  9. Lightly brush with diluted glaze and allow to set.

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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Turnip + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, carrot, turnip, celery, clove, garlic, cinnamon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Orangefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, carrot, turnip, celery, clove, garlic, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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