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Beef Steak, Saute, with Madeira

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and veal are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,784 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Beef Steak, Saute, with Madeira

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove skin and nerves from the steaks and cut them into equal scallops.

  2. Beat and trim the steaks into round shapes.

  3. Melt butter in a sauté pan and lightly cook the steaks until they are a nice light color.

  4. Arrange the cooked steaks on a dish in the shape of a crown.

  5. Drain the butter from the pan and set it aside.

  6. Add Madeira wine to the pan and reduce it with a little veal glaze and Spanish sauce.

  7. Stir in a small amount of pimento butter.

  8. Strain the sauce through a sieve and serve it with the steaks.

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 + vealtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Beef + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Madeira wine + saucetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Madeira wine + vealtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together211 recipes

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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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