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A beef roast seasoned with coarse sea salt, roasted, and served with gravy, horse-radish sauce, and Yorkshire pudding.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Horse and radish work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 529 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Beef, Roast

Ingredients

Directions

Roast the meat

  1. Wipe the meat and place it on a roasting tin.

  2. Roast for 15 minutes per pound plus an additional 15 minutes.

  3. Baste the meat frequently.

Make the gravy and serve

  1. Pour off some drippings.

  2. Brown a little salt in the pan.

  3. Add water or stock and stir until boiling.

  4. Pour the gravy around the meat and serve with horse-radish sauce and Yorkshire pudding.

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.

Explore the science

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. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Beef + horsetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Beef + radishtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Beef + saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,650 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Horse + saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef roast
Provides the main meat, which becomes tender and browns as it roasts.
Yorkshire pudding
Its batter puffs and crisps in the hot oven, adding contrasting texture to the meal.

The step that matters

Roast for 15 minutes per pound plus an additional 15 minutes. Cooking by weight and time keeps the meat from overcooking. Roasting too long dries out the muscle fibres, so the meat turns tough and grey.

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, horse, sauce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Radishthe original

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

“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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