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Mirotok of Cold Meat

A baked patty of minced cold meat, onions, butter, gravy, breadcrumbs, egg, pepper, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Mirotok of Cold Meat

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the filling

  1. Fry the chopped onions in butter until well browned.

  2. Add the gravy to the onions.

  3. Mix in the minced cold meat, bread crumbs, pepper, salt, and beaten egg.

Bake and serve

  1. Press the mixture into a buttered mold.

  2. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until browned on top.

  3. Turn out onto a dish and serve hot or cold.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  5. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Onions
Browned in butter to add sweetness and savory flavor to the patties.
Cold meat
Forms the main body of the patties.
Beaten egg
Binds the mixture so it holds its shape.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold together.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the onions brown.

The step that matters

Bake at 400°F (200°C) until browned on top. The mixture is already cooked meat, so the bake is mainly for browning and setting the binder. Pressing the mixture firmly and baking until the top is golden helps the patties hold their shape when turned out.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, meat, bread, pepper, egg):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, meat, bread, pepper, egg. 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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