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Beef Steak Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 32,460 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Beef Steak Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Beat the steaks with a rolling pin and season them.

  2. Roll the steaks with pieces of fat and optional shredded onion.

  3. Line a bowl with a paste made from suet and flour.

  4. Place the rolled steaks in the bowl and cover with a crust.

  5. Press the edges to seal in the gravy and cover with a cloth.

  6. Boil the pudding slowly for several hours.

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. Onion + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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