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Bceuf En Vinaigrette

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Bceuf En Vinaigrette

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the dressed beef and arrange it in a salad bowl.

  2. Garnish with fillets of herrings or anchovies.

  3. Chop the chives, chervil, tarragon, pimpernel, and lettuce finely.

  4. Add pepper, coarse sea salt, oil, and vinegar.

  5. Pour the dressing over the beef without stirring.

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. Chervil + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Chive + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Chervil + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together396 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Tarragon + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chive + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together261 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, chive, chervil, tarragon, pepper, vinegar):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Lettucethe original
  3. Mustardfits less well
  4. Beetrootfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, chive, chervil, tarragon, pepper, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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