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Domestic Pasty

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and beef match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓

Domestic Pasty

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather the meat scraps and bones.

  2. Simmer them with an onion and vegetable scraps for 1 hour.

  3. Add Brand’s essence, mushroom ketchup, peppercorns, minced herbs, lime peel, anchovy sauce, vinegar, sugar, and salt.

  4. Stir in a dash of Madeira before straining the broth into a bowl.

  5. Remove any fat from the broth.

  6. If desired, add isinglass or gelatine to thicken the gravy.

  7. Use this gravy to moisten the contents of your pie.

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. Pork + beeftop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,690 recipes

    Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).

  2. Pork + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  4. Beef + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,148 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, pork, beef, chicken, onion, mushroom, ketchup):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Grapefits about as well
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, pork, beef, chicken, onion, mushroom, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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