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Brighton Hunting Beef

Uses powdered saltpetre.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Allspice and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,395 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Brighton Hunting Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the beef in spring water for a few hours.

  2. Drain the beef and rub in powdered saltpetre, repeating two to three times.

  3. Rub in coarse sea salt several times over the next 24 hours.

  4. Rub in a mixture of allspice and black pepper for another 24 hours.

  5. Let the beef sit in the pickle for ten days, turning it daily.

  6. Bake the beef in a pan for four hours, covered with crust.

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. Allspice + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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