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Sbbvino Cold Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Sbbvino Cold Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the joint on a clean dish immediately after serving.

  2. Strain any leftover gravy, removing floating fat, and reserve it for kitchen use.

  3. Garnish the joint with parsley or cress for a fresh appearance.

  4. If the joint is cut down, serve neat slices on a small dish with appropriate garnishes.

  5. For beef, add grated horseradish and parsley; for veal, use cut lemons and something green.

  6. For mutton, garnish with parsley and consider serving savory eggs as an improvement.

  7. Use beetroot cut in various shapes, brushed with salad oil, for a bright look.

  8. For ham and tongue, slice thinly, roll neatly, and arrange on a dish with parsley between each roll.

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. Horseradish + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Parsley + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  3. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  4. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, parsley, horseradish, lemon, carrot, celery, beetroot):

  1. Dillfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, parsley, horseradish, lemon, carrot, celery, beetroot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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