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Beef Palates

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,533 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Beef Palates

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald and scale the beef palates, then boil them until tender.

  2. Once cool, roll the palates with force-meat in the middle and tie them with thread.

  3. Blanch them to make them as white as possible.

  4. Prepare a sauce with diced ham, diced breast of fowl, pickled cucumbers, and omelets made from eggs.

  5. Serve the palates with the sauce.

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 + meattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,533 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Meat + hamtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Beef + hamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,729 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Ham + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

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

  5. Beef + cucumbertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together576 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

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

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