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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Leek and turnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,046 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Beef-heart

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the beef heart carefully and stuff it like a hare.

  2. Serve with rich gravy and currant jelly sauce.

  3. For the ox cheek, soak and cleanse it the day before cooking.

  4. Place the cheek in a stew pot with 3 quarts of water and bring to a boil.

  5. Skim the surface, then simmer for 2 hours.

  6. Add carrots, leeks, turnips, sweet herbs, whole pepper, and allspice.

  7. Skim often until the meat is tender, then remove the meat.

  8. Let the soup cool, then remove the layer of fat.

  9. Serve the soup separately or with the meat.

  10. To achieve a fine brown color, use burnt sugar or fry onions with flour and simmer them in the soup.

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. Leek + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,046 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + leektop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,310 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + allspicetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Carrot + allspicetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,021 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sauce, carrot, leek, turnip, pepper, allspice):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sauce, carrot, leek, turnip, pepper, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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