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Sirloin of Beef

A roasted sirloin served with horse-radish, Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, olives, tomatoes, mushrooms, and various sauces.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Sirloin of Beef

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.

Roast the beef

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Roast or bake the sirloin of beef until cooked to your preference.

Serve

  1. Serve with finely scraped horse-radish and Yorkshire pudding.

  2. Garnish with potatoes, olives, well-cooked tomatoes, or mushrooms.

  3. Offer sauces such as horse-radish, mustard, Bordelaise, brown, mushroom, and tomato.

  4. Pair with suitable vegetables like potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, and any green vegetable.

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. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Horse + radishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

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

  4. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

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

  5. Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sirloin of beef
Is the main cut that is roasted, providing the meat that is served.
Yorkshire pudding
Adds a crisp, airy contrast to the rich, tender beef.
Finely scraped horse-radish
Adds a sharp, pungent heat that cuts through the richness of the beef.
Mushrooms
Add earthy, savory flavor that complements the roasted beef.

The step that matters

Roast or bake the sirloin of beef until cooked to your preference. Meat continues to cook after leaving the oven, and the internal temperature determines doneness, so removing it at the right point matters for juiciness and texture.

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, horse, potato, olive, tomato, mushroom, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, horse, potato, olive, tomato, mushroom, sauce. 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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