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Brisket of Beef Stewed, and High Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,409 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Brisket of Beef Stewed, and High Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stew the brisket of beef until tender.

  2. Prepare high sauce to serve with the beef.

  3. Cook cauliflower by frying until golden.

  4. Prepare stewed cucumbers and shrimp sauce separately.

  5. Make giblet soup and serve with potatoes.

  6. Prepare pigeon pie and serve with stewed peas and lettuce.

  7. Cook cutlet Maintenon and serve with anchovy sauce.

  8. Braised veal olives and fried soles complete the dish.

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. Cucumber + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Cauliflower + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Cauliflower + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Cauliflower + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together313 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sauce, cauliflower, cucumber, shrimp, potato, lettuce):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Lentilsfits about as well
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sauce, cauliflower, cucumber, shrimp, potato, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.