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Corned Beef Hash

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Corned Beef Hash

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove skin and gristle from the cooked corned beef and chop the meat.

  2. If the meat is very fatty, discard most of the fat.

  3. Add an equal quantity of cold mashed potatoes to the meat.

  4. Season with salt and pepper, then moisten with milk or cream and mix thoroughly.

  5. Spread the mixture evenly in a greased frying pan.

  6. Place the pan on the stove where it can brown slowly.

  7. Fold the hash and turn it onto a hot platter.

  8. Garnish with parsley.

  9. Optionally, shape the mixture into cakes and sauté in hot fat.

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

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

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  3. Beef + potatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,052 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Potato + milktop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, potato, pepper, milk):

  1. Rosemaryfits about as well
  2. Parsleythe original
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Celeryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, potato, pepper, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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