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To Force a Sirloin of Beef

A roasted sirloin of beef stuffed with chopped meat, shallots, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,971 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

To Force a Sirloin of Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roast the sirloin of beef until fully cooked.

  2. Transfer the roasted sirloin to a dish with the inside facing up.

  3. Lift the skin of the sirloin with a sharp knife.

Stuff and serve

  1. Finely chop the inside meat of the sirloin.

  2. Sprinkle coarse sea salt and black pepper over the chopped meat.

  3. Add the chopped shallots to the meat.

  4. Cover the meat with the skin.

  5. Serve with red wine or vinegar if desired.

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 + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Pepper + shallottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Beef + red winetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,017 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Shallot + red winetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together231 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Beef + shallottop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,103 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Sirloin of beef
Is the main cut, providing the meat that is cooked, chopped and covered again.
Shallots
Add a mild, sweet onion flavour to the chopped meat filling.

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, red wine):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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