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Steak, Crumbed

Thin slices of cooked beef steak are seasoned, coated with flour and bread crumbs, then fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Steak, Crumbed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the steak

  1. Cut the steak into thin slices.

  2. Prepare a seasoning with salt, black pepper, cayenne, and hot sauce.

  3. Coat the meat with the seasoning.

Bread the pieces

  1. Dip each piece in liquefied dripping or butter.

  2. Dust each piece with flour.

  3. Roll each piece in bread crumbs individually.

  4. Let the pieces rest briefly.

  5. Dip each piece again in butter.

  6. Coat each piece with bread crumbs once more.

Fry

  1. Fry the pieces in plenty of hot oil until golden brown.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  3. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

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

  5. Sauce + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Beef steak
Provides the meat that is seasoned, coated and fried into crisp pieces.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns during frying.
Flour
Dry dusting layer that helps the butter and crumbs adhere to the meat.
Liquefied dripping or butter
Binds the flour and crumbs and adds fat that promotes browning.

The step that matters

Fry in plenty of hot oil. Enough hot oil keeps the temperature high when the pieces go in, so the coating crisps and browns quickly instead of absorbing grease and turning soggy.

“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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