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A rolled beef and bacon mixture baked in a pudding cloth, served with meat glaze.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Beef, Galantine of

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mixture

  1. Cut the beef and bacon into small pieces.

  2. Add the breadcrumbs.

  3. Season generously with salt and pepper and mix well.

  4. Beat the eggs and combine them with the stock.

  5. Stir into the dry ingredients.

Shape and cook

  1. Shape the mixture into a short, thick roll.

  2. Tie it in a buttered pudding cloth.

  3. Boil gently in stock or water for 2 to 2.5 hours.

  4. Press until cold.

Finish and serve

  1. Before serving, brush with dissolved meat glaze.

  2. Decorate with creamed butter or aspic jelly.

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. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Lean beef
Provides the main meaty body and firm texture of the filling.
Bacon
Adds fat that keeps the mixture moist and flavourful as it cooks.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid and help bind the mixture so it holds together when sliced.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set when heated, giving the roll a firm structure.

The step that matters

Boiling gently. A gentle simmer cooks the roll evenly and keeps the meat tender. A hard rolling boil can toughen the proteins and break the cloth wrapping, so the roll stays intact and juicy.

“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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