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Cannelon of Beef or Mutton

A baked beef or mutton croquette stuffed with onion, breadcrumbs, egg yolk, herbs, and mushroom, served with ketchup-flavored brown sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Cannelon of Beef or Mutton

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the filling

  1. Fry the onion in hot fat until brown.

  2. Add the minced beef and all remaining ingredients; mix thoroughly.

Shape and bake

  1. Turn the mixture out onto a well-floured board and shape it like a large croquette.

  2. Place the shaped mixture in a baking tin about ½ inch deep with hot fat.

  3. Cover with greased paper and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

Serve

  1. Dish up and serve with brown sauce flavored with ketchup.

  2. Garnish with parsley and egg yolks.

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 + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Beef + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Thyme + mushroomtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,557 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold beef
Forms the main body of the filling and gives it a meaty, savory structure.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help bind the minced meat so the mixture holds together.
Egg yolk
Acts as a binder that helps the mixture set and hold its shape when baked.

The step that matters

Shaping the mixture on a floured board. The mixture is soft and moist, so flouring the board keeps it from sticking. Shaping it firmly helps it hold a croquette form while baking.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, bread, egg, pepper, parsley, thyme, mushroom):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, bread, egg, pepper, parsley, thyme, mushroom. 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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