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Rump of Beef a LA Mode

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Rump of Beef a LA Mode

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Season the bacon strips with parsley, eschalot, and herb mixture.

  2. Thickly daube the rump of beef with the seasoned bacon.

  3. Prepare a marinade with onions, carrots, bay leaves, thyme, basil, mace, cloves, and peppercorns, cooked with beef suet.

  4. Add enough broth to cover the meat and half a bottle of Madeira or sherry.

  5. Boil gently for 30 minutes, then cool and pour over the meat.

  6. Marinate for 24 hours.

  7. Braise the meat in the marinade, adding skimmed fat from stock pots.

  8. Once done, drain and glaze before serving with a good Spanish sauce.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Thyme + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: terpineol (pine, woody).

  4. Parsley + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Thyme + clovetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsley, onion, carrot, thyme, basil, clove, beef):

  1. Marjoramfits better
  2. Winter savoryfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, onion, carrot, thyme, basil, clove, beef. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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