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Raw Beef Sandwiches

A sandwich made with raw beef spread between thin bread slices, garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,032 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Raw Beef Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the beef as for raw beef tea.

  2. Cut the bread into very thin slices.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the beef on one slice of bread.

  2. Cover with another slice of bread and press firmly together.

  3. Cut into desired shapes, such as diamonds.

  4. Arrange in a star shape and garnish with parsley.

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

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

  2. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Beef + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,866 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Beef
Forms the savory filling that gives the sandwich its main flavor and moist texture.
Bread
Provides thin structural layers that hold the beef filling and keep the sandwich together.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Pepperfits better
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, bread. 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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