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Beef Olives

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,232 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Beef Olives

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the beef into strips about ½ inch thick and 10 inches long.

  2. Cut the bacon to match the width of the beef and about 3 inches long.

  3. Spread part of the egg yolk on the beef, place the bacon on top, and add another egg yolk on the bacon.

  4. Spread forcemeat on top, add more egg yolk, roll them up, and tie securely with string in two places.

  5. Coat with bread crumbs and another egg yolk.

  6. Fry in a large pan with beef dripping until browned, then drain.

  7. In a saucepan, melt butter, stir in flour until smooth, then add gravy and white wine.

  8. Add the olives and simmer for an hour.

  9. Incorporate mushrooms, truffles, morels, forcemeat balls, and sweetbreads.

  10. Squeeze in lemon juice and season with pepper and salt.

  11. Carefully skim off fat, place in a dish, and garnish with lemon and beetroot.

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 + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  2. Mushroom + truffletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,900 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. White wine + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  5. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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