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Excellent and Wholesome Beef Broth

A simple beef broth made with beef steak, water, mace, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,969 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Excellent and Wholesome Beef Broth

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. In a pot, combine the beef steak and water.

  2. Add the blade of mace and salt.

  3. Simmer until the mixture is reduced to 1 quart.

Strain and chill

  1. Strain the broth and let it cool.

  2. Remove the fat from the surface once cooled.

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. Beef + macetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,969 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef steak
Supplies the main meat flavor and, as it simmers, gelatin that gives the broth body.
Blade of mace
Adds a warm, aromatic spice note to the broth.

The step that matters

Simmer gently while reducing. Keeping the liquid at a gentle simmer rather than a hard boil keeps the broth clearer, because vigorous boiling breaks up fat and impurities into the liquid, making it cloudy.

“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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