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Beefsteak Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Beefsteak Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Butter and line a pudding basin with Pudding Paste, ½ inch thick.

  2. Fill the basin with alternate layers of fillet of beef and thinly sliced kidneys, seasoning each layer with pepper, coarse sea salt, and chopped herbs.

  3. Alternatively, roll kidney and fat inside each slice of fillet, seasoned with pepper, coarse sea salt, and herbs, then fill the pudding.

  4. Add Brown Sauce and cover the bottom with a layer of paste.

  5. Tie the pudding securely in a well-buttered cloth and boil in a stewpan for 2.5 hours.

  6. Remove the cloth, turn the pudding out onto a dish, and serve with Fine Herbs Sauce or good Stock.

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 + saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,650 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Pepper + saucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Pepper and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,303 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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