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An Excellent Dinner, All of Beef

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 40 ingredients
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Why it works: Chestnut and artichoke share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

An Excellent Dinner, All of Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the beef palate with sauce St. Menehould.

  2. Make little pates with hashed filet of beef and onion.

  3. Cook beef kidneys with fried onion.

  4. Prepare beef foot with lemon sauce.

  5. Stew the rump of beef with vegetables, cutting them into fun shapes.

  6. Cook oxtail with pureed chestnuts.

  7. Prepare beef tongue in civet sauce a la bourguignonne.

  8. Stew beef cutlets with artichokes.

  9. Braised beef liver with celery.

  10. Make rissoles of beef with pureed hazelnuts.

  11. Toast bread and top with beef marrow.

  12. Roast beef ribs and serve with marrow sauce.

  13. Prepare a chicory salad with cold beef tongue.

  14. Make beef a la mode in jelly.

  15. Prepare cold pate of beef with jelly and wine.

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. Chestnut + artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lemon + artichoketop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together636 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  4. Artichoke + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Beef + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,092 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 lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, sauce, onion, chestnut, artichoke, liver, celery):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, sauce, onion, chestnut, artichoke, liver, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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