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Beefsteak — Stuffed and Rolled

A round steak rolled with stuffing, buttered, and baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,592 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Beefsteak — Stuffed and Rolled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare a stuffing as for turkey, adding a little onion.

  2. Spread the stuffing evenly on the steak, roll it up, and tie it.

Bake and serve

  1. Melt the butter in the hot water and pour it over the rolled steak.

  2. Bake the steak like a fowl, basting frequently.

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. Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Turkey + oniontop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together577 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Round steak
Forms the main body of the dish, and its lean meat becomes tender when slowly baked and basted.
Stuffing
Fills the rolled steak, adding moisture and flavour as it cooks inside the meat.
Butter
Melted into the water and poured over the steak, adding richness and helping the surface brown.

The step that matters

Basting the rolled steak. Basting frequently keeps the lean surface moist as it bakes, since lean meat dries out easily. Spooning the liquid over it also helps the surface brown evenly.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, butter):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Leekfits about as well
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, butter. 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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