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Mock Duck

A roast steak rolled with seasoned dressing and onion, baked slowly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and onion work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 577 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Mock Duck

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare a highly seasoned dressing similar to that used for turkey.

  2. Add finely minced onion to the dressing.

Stuff and bake

  1. Spread the dressing on the round steak.

  2. Roll the steak and tie it to maintain its shape.

  3. Add a little water to the pan and bake slowly, basting often.

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. Turkey + oniontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together577 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Round steak
Forms the main body of the dish and holds the dressing rolled inside it.
Minced onion
Adds aroma and savory flavor to the dressing.

The step that matters

Bake slowly with water in the pan, basting often. Round steak is a lean, tough cut. Slow cooking with added liquid and frequent basting keeps the surface from drying out and gives the connective tissue time to soften, so the meat stays moist and tender.

“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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