Why it works: Beef and pork match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,690 recipes. Both carry 12-methyltridecanal, which smells tallowy, beefy. The science ↓
Warm Dishes for Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Broil the beef steak until cooked to your liking.
Fry the pork tenderloins in a skillet until golden brown.
Fry the pig’s feet until crispy.
Fry the oysters until golden and crispy.
Fry the clams until cooked through.
Fry the liver and bacon together until the liver is cooked.
Fry the chops until browned.
Fry the ham and eggs together until the eggs are cooked.
Bread and fry the veal cutlets until golden.
Cook the sausages in a skillet until browned.
Fricassee the tripe and kidneys until tender.
Make a hash with turkey or chicken and serve hot.
Prepare corned beef hash and serve warm.
Make beef croquettes and fry until golden.
Form codfish balls and fry until golden brown.
Cream the codfish and serve over toast.
Stew meats and serve on toast.
Poach eggs and serve on toast.
Make omelettes to your preference.
Boil eggs plain or cook them in various styles.
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 + porktop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together5,690 recipes
Shared aroma: 12-methyltridecanal (tallowy, beefy).
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Liver + vealtop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together392 recipes
Shared aroma: enoic acid (butter, cheesy).
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Pork + livertop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,606 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).
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Pork + clamtop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together305 recipes
Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).
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Pork + vealtop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together4,930 recipes
Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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