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Broiled Beef Steaks

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Broiled Beef Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the fillet and the first two or three steaks from the small fat rump of beef.

  2. Cut the remainder into steaks and remove the skin from the fat.

  3. Beat the steaks with a chopper and season with pepper and coarse sea salt just before grilling.

  4. Preheat the grill and ensure it is well cleaned.

  5. Grill the steaks, turning them frequently until cooked to your liking.

  6. Once done, season with pepper and coarse sea salt on both sides.

  7. Serve on a hot dish with a little gravy underneath.

  8. On small plates, serve scraped horseradish, chopped shallots, and pickles.

  9. Offer oyster sauce in a sauce boat or serve fried onion slices dipped in batter.

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 + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Horseradish + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 recipes

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

  4. Shallot + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,431 recipes

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

  5. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, horseradish, shallot, oyster, sauce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

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