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Cold Meat and Scrap Cookery

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,154 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cold Meat and Scrap Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the meat neatly.

  2. Make a pint of gravy for plain hashes.

  3. Add the sliced meat and seasoning to the gravy, except for salt and bacon.

  4. Cover and stew gently for 1 hour.

  5. Add salt and grated cheese, then do not let it boil again.

  6. Serve on a hot dish with cut lemon and bacon.

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. Cheese + lemontop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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