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Beef Steaks Rolled and Roasted

Beef steaks rolled with a ham and veal stuffing, roasted and served with brown gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Beef Steaks Rolled and Roasted

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut steaks from the rump and beat them if not tender.

  2. Make a stuffing with ham, veal, and pepper; stew briefly.

  3. Pound the stuffing with bread soaked in milk, butter, and egg yolks.

Roll and roast

  1. Spread the stuffing over the steaks, roll them up, and tie tightly.

  2. Roast the rolls before a clear fire for 1 hour and 20 minutes to 1.5 hours.

  3. Baste well with butter while roasting and serve with brown gravy.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef steaks from the rump
Forms the outer wrapper that holds the stuffing and cooks to a savory, browned surface.
Ham and veal
Make up the savory stuffing, adding richness and meaty flavor inside the rolls.
Bread steeped in milk
Soaks up moisture and binds the stuffing so it stays soft and cohesive.
Egg yolks
Bind the stuffing and add richness and tenderness as they set during roasting.
Butter
Adds fat and flavor, and basting keeps the outside moist and browned.

The step that matters

Tying the rolls tightly. Loose rolls can open or let stuffing escape during roasting. Firm, even tying keeps the filling enclosed and helps the rolls cook evenly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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