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Vinaigrette of Gold Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Vinaigrette of Gold Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the cold boiled beef into small thin slices.

  2. Arrange the slices in a dish.

  3. Season with pepper, coarse sea salt, chopped pickles, chervil, tarragon, vinegar, and oil.

  4. Decorate with fillets of anchovy, gherkins, capsicums, and capers.

  5. Do not stir before serving.

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. Chervil + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Chervil + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Tarragon + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together379 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + capsicumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,571 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the capsicum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, pepper, chervil, tarragon, vinegar, anchovy, capers):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Capsicumthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, pepper, chervil, tarragon, vinegar, anchovy, capers. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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