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Stewed Beef

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 584 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Stewed Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stew the brisket of beef with high sauce until tender.

  2. Prepare the cauliflower by boiling or steaming until soft.

  3. Cook the cucumbers until tender and season to taste.

  4. Fry the cutlets until golden brown.

  5. Make the shrimp sauce by combining cooked shrimp with a creamy base.

  6. Prepare giblet soup by simmering giblets in broth.

  7. Boil the potatoes until soft, then mash or serve whole.

  8. Mix anchovy sauce with melted butter and serve with the dish.

  9. Bake the pigeon pie until the crust is golden.

  10. Stew the peas with lettuce until cooked through.

  11. Braised veal olives should be cooked until tender.

  12. Fry the soles until crispy.

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. Cauliflower + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together584 recipes

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

  2. Sauce + anchovytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cauliflower + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together313 recipes

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

  4. Cucumber + peastop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together629 recipes

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

  5. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sauce, cauliflower, cucumber, shrimp, potato, anchovy):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits about as well
  3. Peasthe original
  4. Chestnutfits about as well

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

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