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Hashed Beef or Mutton

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Hashed Beef or Mutton

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the sauces, pepper, salt, cayenne, Port wine, and chopped Capsicum with the leftover gravy from the previous day.

  2. In a stewpan, combine 1½ pints of broth or water with the gravy and add the sliced onion. Boil for about 10 minutes.

  3. In a bowl, mix 1 tablespoon of flour with a little water to form a paste, then stir it into the broth. Boil for another 5-10 minutes.

  4. Strain the mixture through a sieve and keep it warm by the fire until ready to add the meat.

  5. Just before serving, stir in 1 teaspoon of finely chopped parsley for added flavor.

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. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + capsicumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,520 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + capsicumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,571 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Capsicum + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,816 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, tomato, pepper, port wine, capsicum, mushroom, ketchup):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Cucumberfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, tomato, pepper, port wine, capsicum, mushroom, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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