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To -warm Itp Cold Ritmp Steaks

Cold steaks are reheated by stewing them with onion and spices, then served with a flour-thickened gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and horseradish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 376 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

To -warm Itp Cold Ritmp Steaks

Ingredients

Directions

Make the gravy

  1. Place the steaks in a stewpan with the onion, allspice, and black pepper.

  2. Cover the steaks with boiling water and let them stew gently for one hour.

  3. Mix the flour and butter together on a plate to form a paste.

  4. After an hour, add the flour and butter mixture to the stewpan and shake well over the fire for five minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve the steaks and onion on a dish, pouring the gravy through a sieve over them.

  2. Optionally, add ketchup and minced shallot to the dish before serving.

  3. Garnish with pickles and finely scraped horseradish.

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. Shallot + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Allspice + horseradishtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together654 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Flour + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Allspice + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together386 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Onion + horseradishtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Rump steak
Provides the meat that becomes tender during slow stewing.
Flour
Thickens the cooking liquid into a gravy as it heats.
Butter
Enriches the gravy with fat and helps bind the flour paste smoothly.
Onion
Adds savoury sweetness and aroma to the stewing liquid and gravy.

The step that matters

Shaking the flour and butter into the stewpan. Adding the flour paste to hot liquid without thorough stirring or shaking can leave lumps. Shaking over heat disperses the flour so it thickens the gravy evenly.

Swap the shallot

The recipe marks shallot as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, allspice, flour, butter, ketchup, horseradish):

  1. Mustardfits about as well
  2. Shallotthe original
  3. Turnipfits about as well
  4. Chivefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, allspice, flour, butter, ketchup, horseradish. 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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