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Beef Palates is a dish of simmered and stewed beef palates served with a rich gravy and optional milk-based fricassee sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 ↓

Beef-Palates

Oven, in the book's wordsA very cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the palates

  1. Simmer beef palates in water for several hours until they can be peeled.

  2. Cut palates into slices or leave whole as desired.

Stew and season

  1. Stew palates in a rich gravy until tender.

  2. Season with Cayenne, salt, and ketchup before serving.

Serve white

  1. If serving white, boil palates in milk and stew in fricassee sauce with cream, butter, flour, and mushroom powder, adding pounded mace.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  5. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 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

Beef palates
Main protein; simmering softens them until they can be peeled and become tender.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the fricassee sauce, carrying flavor and a smooth mouthfeel.
Flour
Thickens the sauce, giving the gravy body as it cooks with the liquid.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, velvety texture to the white sauce.
Milk
Provides the liquid for boiling the palates and contributes to the white sauce's mild, creamy base.
Ketchup
Adds sweetness and acidity that shape the flavor of the gravy.

The step that matters

Simmer the palates until they can be peeled. Palates need long, gentle simmering to break down connective tissue and become tender. Cutting the simmer short leaves them tough and makes peeling difficult, so they should be tested until the skin loosens easily.

“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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