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Raw Beef Sandwiches

A sandwich made with finely scraped raw beef seasoned with pepper and salt, served on thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,971 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Raw Beef Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scrape the raw beef finely.

  2. Season the beef with pepper and salt.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the seasoned beef on thin slices of bread.

  2. Put the slices together to form a sandwich.

  3. Cut the sandwiches into narrow strips or small squares.

  4. Optionally, toast the bread slightly before assembling.

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. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

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

  2. Beef + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Raw beef
Forms the main filling; finely scraped meat spreads easily and gives a soft, tender texture.
Thin slices of bread
Hold the beef together as a sandwich and provide the base for each bite.

The step that matters

Scrape the raw beef finely. Fine scraping breaks the meat into a soft, even texture that spreads smoothly and is easy to chew. Coarse pieces would stay chunky and make the sandwich hard to bite through neatly.

“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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