Why it works: Beef and oyster work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 798 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓
Beef-steak and Oyster Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the beef into collops.
Layer the bottom of a pie dish with beef collops.
Add a layer of drained oysters on top of the beef.
Repeat layering with beef and oysters until the dish is packed.
Cover with a pastry crust, cut a vent in the center, and decorate with a pastry flower.
Glaze the crust before baking.
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.
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Beef + oystertop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together798 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
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