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Curry Made of Dressed Meat

A curry made with dressed meat, apple, onions, curry powder, and flour, served over rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,433 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Curry Made of Dressed Meat

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. Melt the drippings in a stew-pan until they fizzle.

  2. Fry the apple and onions in the drippings until tender.

  3. Remove the apple and onions, and rub them through a sieve.

  4. Mix the pulp with curry powder, flour, and salt, moistened with a little stock or water.

  5. Add more stock to make up ½ pint and pour the mixture into the stew-pan.

Simmer and serve

  1. When the sauce simmers, add the meat and simmer gently for 30 minutes.

  2. Stir in cream or milk just before serving for added richness.

  3. Serve with a loosely piled border of rice around the dish.

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. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  2. Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 recipes

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

  3. Apple + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

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

  4. Flour + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Meat + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,364 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cold meat
Is the main protein, gently heated in the curry sauce until warmed through and tender.
Onions
Break down when fried and sieved, adding body and sweetness to the sauce.
Apple
Cooks into the pulp that thickens and sweetens the curry sauce.
Flour
Thickens the sauce as it simmers with the stock.
Curry powder
Provides the spiced flavour that defines the dish.

The step that matters

Sieving the fried apple and onions. Pressing them through a sieve breaks the fibres into a smooth pulp, which gives the sauce an even body. Lumps left behind would make the sauce grainy.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, onion, flour, cream, rice):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, onion, flour, cream, rice. 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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