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Beep Steaks a LA Franqaise

Thinly sliced beef seasoned, broiled, and served with a parsley‑butter sauce and fried potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Beep Steaks a LA Franqaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the steaks

  1. Season the steak slices with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  2. Brush the steaks with a little clarified butter.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the steaks over a clear, brisk fire until done.

  2. In a bowl, mix minced parsley, fresh butter, cayenne pepper, and a small amount of salt.

  3. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon over the butter before adding the meat.

  4. Place the mixture in a serving dish.

  5. Lay the steaks on top.

  6. Garnish with fried potatoes.

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

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Sirloin or rump steak
Forms the main body of the dish and is cooked through by broiling.
Clarified butter
Coats the steaks, adding richness and helping them brown in the broiler.
Fresh butter
Melts into the parsley mixture to make a rich sauce for the steaks.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich butter sauce.

The step that matters

Broil over a clear, brisk fire until done. A very hot, direct heat sears the outside quickly and keeps the inside juicy. Overcooking toughens lean beef, so the steaks should be checked closely as they cook.

“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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