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Scraped Beef on Crackers

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Beef and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,847 recipes. Both carry 2-furfurylthiol, which smells coffee, roasted. The science ↓

Scraped Beef on Crackers

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the beef according to the directions for Beef Balls.

  2. Season the beef to taste with salt.

  3. Divide the beef evenly and place it roughly on top of the crackers, making several depressions in each.

  4. Place in a hot oven until the beef appears cooked on the outside and is slightly heated through.

  5. Remove from the oven and add dots of butter in the depressions.

  6. Return to the oven until the butter melts.

  7. Serve immediately.

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 + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,847 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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