Why it works: Beef and oyster work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 798 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓
Beef-steak Pie
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the beef steaks into long strips and season with coarse sea salt.
Roll each strip with a piece of fat.
Place the strips in a dish with paste around the edges.
Add a little water or gravy to the dish.
Cover the dish with short crust or puff paste, pressing it down around the edges.
If desired, mix in a few oysters and their liquor for added flavor.
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.
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Beef + oystertop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together798 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).
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