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Cold Meat Akd Scrap Cookery

A hash of sliced meat simmered in gravy with cheese, lemon, and bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,154 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cold Meat Akd Scrap Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the meat neatly.

  2. Make 1 pint of gravy for plain hashes.

Stew

  1. Add the sliced meat and seasoning to the gravy, excluding salt and bacon.

  2. Cover and stew gently for 1 hour.

Finish and serve

  1. Stir in salt and 1-2 tablespoons of grated cheese without boiling again.

  2. Serve immediately on a hot dish with cut lemon and bacon.

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. Cheese + lemontop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,154 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

Gravy
Provides the moist, savoury base that binds the meat into a hash.
Grated cheese
Adds richness and flavour when stirred in off the heat.

The step that matters

Stir in the cheese without boiling again. Boiling a cheese-containing sauce can make it grainy and separate its fat, so it should be stirred in gently after the gravy has finished cooking.

“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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