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Steak, Broiled

Broiled steak served with a butter, onion, and parsley sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Steak, Broiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the steak

  1. Cut the steak into pieces or leave it whole and dip it in olive oil.

  2. Set aside for a few hours.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the steak over a clear fire until cooked to your liking.

  2. In a saucepan, melt the butter with the chopped onion and parsley. Add lemon juice, pepper, and salt, then stir over heat for 5 minutes.

  3. Serve the steak hot 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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

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

  5. Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Steak
Provides the main protein; its outer surface browns under high heat while the inside cooks through.
Olive oil
Coats the steak, adding moisture and helping the surface brown evenly under the broiler.
Butter
Melts into the sauce, adding richness and a smooth, rounded fat flavour.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sauce and balances the richness of the butter.

The step that matters

Broil the steak over a clear fire until cooked to your liking. Broiling relies on intense direct heat, so the surface can burn before the centre cooks. Watching closely and checking doneness keeps the meat juicy and evenly cooked.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, walnut, butter, parsley, lemon, pepper):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, walnut, butter, parsley, lemon, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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