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Beef Tea and Egg

A simple beverage made by warming beef tea, adding an egg yolk, seasoning with salt, and serving.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and tea work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 417 recipes. Both carry 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan, which smells thiamin, meat. The science ↓

Beef Tea and Egg

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Warm the beef tea in a saucepan.

  2. Pour it into a teacup.

  3. Stir in the egg yolk until well mixed.

  4. Season with salt and serve.

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 + teatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methyl-3-(methyldithio)furan (thiamin, meat).

  2. Beef + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Tea + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together821 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef tea
Forms the liquid base and carries the savory beef flavor.
Egg yolk
Adds richness and body, blending smoothly into the warm liquid for a silky texture.

The step that matters

Stir in the egg yolk until well mixed. If the beef tea is too hot, the yolk can partly scramble into small specks instead of blending in. Keep the liquid warm rather than boiling, and stir steadily as the yolk goes in so it disperses evenly.

“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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